 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...Save what the plough-share gives the ground. , Go ! let the diving Negro seek For gems, hid in some forlorn creek, We all pearls scorn, Save what the...what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest, silent groves ! O may ye b« For ever mirth's best nursery! May pure contents For ever pitch their tents Vpon these... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...found Save what ihe plough-share gives the ground. Go ! let the diving Negro seek For gems, hid in some forlorn creek, We all pearls scorn, Save what the...what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest, silent groves ! O may ye be For ever mirth's best nursery ! May pure contents For ever pitch their tents Upon these... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...found Save what the plough-share gives the grou Go ! let the diving Negro seek For gems, hid in some forlorn creek, We all pearls scorn, Save what the...spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as th And gold ne'er here appears Save what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest, silent groves ! O may ye be... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...pass ; And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest, silent groves ! O may ye be For ever Mirth's best nursery ! May pure Contents For ever pitch their tents Upon these downs, these meads, these rocks, these mountains, And Peace still slumber by these purling fountains, Which... | |
 | Horse racing - 1815 - 442 pages
...Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spray of grass, Which сак-less shrpherds beut down as they pass ; And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Cv;res bears. Blest, silent groves ! О may ye be For ever Math's best nursery! May pure contents For... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...^' " Go let the diving negro seek For gems hid in some forlorn creek : We all pearls scorn, * .** ti Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little...grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pan : And gold ne'er here appears, ' ^ Save what the yellow Ceres bears. " Blest silent groves, oh... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...among The. birds, for prize of their sweet song. Go, let the diving negro seek ..For gems, hid in some forlorn creek; We all pearls scorn, Save what the...Save what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest silent groves ! — O may ye be For ever mirth's best nursery ! May pure contents For ever pitch their tents, Upon... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...French wines, and French fashions ; rejecting ornament ; scorning all gems. Save what the dewy mom Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass. IVotton, or Raleigh. And when quietly bosomed in my cottage with the lady of my heart, I view the bright... | |
 | England - 1823 - 478 pages
...none more beautifully and simply than Raleigh : Go ! let the diving negro seek For gems hid in some forlorn creek ; We all pearls scorn Save what the...ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears. " The shepherd's description of love " is full of sentiment, reflection, and point. It is in dialogue... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1824 - 518 pages
...'less among The birds for price of their sweet song. Go, let the diving Negro seek For gems hid in some forlorn creek : We all pearls scorn, Save what the...contents For ever pitch their tents Upon these downs, these meads, these rocks, these mountains, And Peace still slumber by these purling fountains : Which,... | |
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Go, let the diving negro seek For gems, hid in some forlorn creek : We all pearls scorn, Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass : And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow... 
