 Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes in the east awaken? A fig, say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser Mr. Gray has drawn, Who used to haste the dewy grass among, To meet the sun upon the...  Littell's Living Age - Page 121849Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - 1847 - 302 pages
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...the upland lawn " — Well — he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps, that earn betimes their bit and sup ; But I 'm no climbing... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1847 - 314 pages
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...grass among, " To meet the sun upon the upland lawn "Well—he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps, that earn betimes their hit... | |
 | 1853 - 458 pages
...for a season, quaintly begs — Wherefore should miser rise before. the hens Have laid their eggs. Why from a comfortable pillow start, To see faint...streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser, Mr. Grey has drawn, Who used to haste the dewy grass among, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn — Well... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...the upland lawn," — Well — he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bit and sup ; But I 'm no climbing... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...for a season, quaintly begs — Wherefore should miser rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start, To see faint...agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bite and sup ; But I'm no climbing boy, and will not be All up — all up. So here I'll lie, my morning calls... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1856 - 358 pages
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...the upland lawn " — Well — he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bit and sup ; But I 'm no climbing... | |
 | 1857 - 468 pages
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly begs Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...grass among, “To meet the sun upon the upland lawn “— Well—he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 586 pages
...stanzas from Hood's bumorous poem, " Morning Meditations :" " Why from a comfortable pillow start To sec faint flushes in the east awaken? A fig, say I, for...streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser, Mr. Oray, has drawn, — Who used to haste the dewy grass among, — ' To meet the sun upon the upland... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...rise before the hens Have laid their eggs. Why from a comfortable pillow start, To see faint Hushes in the east awaken ? A fig, say I, for any streaky part, Excepting bacon. An early riser, Mr. Grey has drawn, Who used to haste the dewy grass among To. meet the sun upon the upland lawn — Well... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 pages
...grumbling for a reason, quaintly beg* Wherefore should master rise before the hens Have laid their eggs ? Why from a comfortable pillow start To see faint flushes...the upland lawn,'' — Well — he died young. With charwomen such early hours agree, And sweeps that earn betimes their bit and sup , But I 'm no climbing... | |
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