 Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket...  Poems - Page 89by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pages
...on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...bard of Olney with some of his happy thoughts, as it was carried on in every street and cottage.— " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...frankincense on ev'ry side, He begs their flatt'ry with his latest breath. And smother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And snunher'd in 't at last, is praised to death. , Yon cottager, who weaves, at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay. Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And, smothered in't at last, is praised to death ! Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | Elizabeth Ritchie - 1838 - 194 pages
...obstacle that could hinder its growth, considered too great to be removed. " May 2nd, 1836." " You cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smotherM in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
 | George Ripley - 1839 - 174 pages
...not besieged the libraries of the learned, to ask them whether they might believe in Christ or no. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | George Ripley - 1840 - 414 pages
...not besieged the libraries of the learned, to ask them whether they might believe in Christ or no. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...ev'ry side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 And smother'd in't at last, is prals'd to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful if not gay Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
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