Poetry
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt: ... MILLER Summer's toiling now is past; Harvest now hath sent her last--Her last, last load. If the field containeth more, Master, give it to the poor, Abroad--abroad. Let them through the corn-field roam, While we welcome harvest-home--Harvest-home, harvest-home, --While we welcome harvest-home: Songs shall sound and ale-cups foam While we welcome harvest-home, THOMSON. Soon as the morning trembles o'er the skv, And, unpcrceived, unfolds the spreading day; Before the ripen'd field the reapers stand In fair array; each by the lass he loves, To bear the rougher part, and mitigate By nameless gentle offices her toil. At once they stoop and swell the lusty sheaves; While through their cheerful band the rural talk, The rural scandal, and the rural jest, Fly harmless, to deceive the tedious time, And steal unfelt the sultry hours away. Behind the master walks, builds up the shock; And, conscious, glancing oft on every side His sated eye, feels his heart heave with joy. The gleaners spread around, and here and there, Spike after spike, their scanty harvest pick. Be not too narrow, husbandmen! but fling From the full sheaf, with charitable stealth, The liberal handful. Think, oh, grateful think, How good the God of Harvest is to you, Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields; While these unhappy partners of your kind Wide hover round you, like the fowls of heaven, And ask their humble dole. LONGFELLOW. I Tiikke is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the gentle south wind blows; Where, underneath the white-thorn, in the glade, The wild flowers bloom, or kissing the soft air, cs The leaves above their sunny palms outspread. With what a tender and impassion'd voice It fills the nice and delicate ear of thought, When the fast ushering star of morning ...
Poetry of the Year, Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons