 | 1854 - 402 pages
...sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creepLast night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in haloes hid her head — The boding shepherd heaves a sigh,...The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink- eyed pimpernel ; The squalid toads at dusk were seen Slowly crawling o'er the green; Loud quack... | |
 | Agriculture - 1854 - 588 pages
...; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, Ami spiders from their cobwebs peep. Last night the BUD went pale to bed, The moon in halos hid her head ; The uodir.g shepherd heaves a sigh, For see, a rainbow spans the sky. The wills are dump, the ditches smell,... | |
 | G. Garratt - 1856 - 288 pages
...the glass is low, The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from the cobwebs creep. Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos...ditches smell ; Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's joints are on the rack. Loud quack the ducks,... | |
 | T.B. Butler - 1856 - 438 pages
...fog, and is dense and passing east with a wavy appearance, it is very certain to rain. Jenner says : " The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, for see, a rainbow spans the sky" An old almanac had the following verse : " A rainbow in the morning Is the shepherd's warning ; A rainbow... | |
 | 1857 - 498 pages
...gloss is low, The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep.' Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos...ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack Old Betty's joints are on the rack ! Loud quack the ducke, the... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - Humorous recitations - 1858 - 422 pages
...sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs peep. Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in haloes Lid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For,...The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the light-red pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ' Old Betty's joints are on the rack ;... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...gluts it law : The loot falls down, the spaniels sleep: f ad spiders from their cobwebs peep. Last night the sun went pale to bed; The moon in halos...her head. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For, set, a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Cloid is the pink-ey'd pimpernel... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1860 - 284 pages
...glass is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep ; Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos...spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-eyed pimpernel : Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ! Old Betty's joints are... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...sleep, And cpider., from their cobwebs ereep ; Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in hulos hid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For see, a rainbow spans the sky ; The wnlla are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel ; The squalid toads at dusk were... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep. Last night's sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos hid her head...spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack. Old Betty's joints are on... | |
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Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos hid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For see ! a rainbow spans the sky. 
