 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
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - 258 pages
...town of Italy. 9. The art of sweetening. 10. Immortal. 11. A fellow-preacher with Paul. LXVL l I :< 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,... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1867 - 552 pages
...valuable than all these vapourings about the non-Ego, the Ideal, and Self-hood. Simplicity is bliss. " Yon cottager who weaves at. her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gny, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
 | 1868 - 514 pages
...you know it ?" said he. "Sir, I know it m my heart." Of such an one the gentle Cowper sings : — " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit ; Just knoin,... | |
 | William Niven - 1868 - 320 pages
...labourer's daughter, has found in the Bible that which the world cannot give and cannot take away. 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 - 1869 - 332 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,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pages
...his latest breath, — And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. II. THE HUMBLE CHRISTIAN. 3. 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 thread about the livelong day,... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1870 - 502 pages
...Bible, and bending that venerable head over the sacred page, he read it with all the faith of ' ' ' 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 - 1870 - 226 pages
...frankinceuse on every slde. He hegs their fiattery with his latest hreath, And smother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death ! Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and hohhius all her little stor.-. Content thongh mean, and cheerfnl if not gay, Shnffling her threads... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 574 pages
...begs their flattery with his latest breath, And, sinothcr'd in't at last, is praised to death I Ton 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,... | |
 | 1871 - 588 pages
...than the light of day, and is no less needed by the philosopher, ' exalted on his pedestal,' than by ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.' As the... | |
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