Poetical works of the late F. Sayers to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor |
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EPIGRAM ON A SWALLOW BEARING A GRASSHOPPER TO HER YOUNG. |
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EPIGRAM ON A SWALLOW BEARING A GRASSHOPPER TO HER YOUNG.
Ah, Attic maid, who from the fragrant flower
Drink'st honied juice! ah, minstrel! dost thou bear,
To feast the callow younglings of thy bower,
The brisk and gaily-chirping grasshopper?
Drink'st honied juice! ah, minstrel! dost thou bear,
To feast the callow younglings of thy bower,
The brisk and gaily-chirping grasshopper?
What? shall the songster seize a vocal prey?
The winged seek the winged for her food?
The stranger snatch her fellow-guest away?
The child of summer tear the summer-brood?
The winged seek the winged for her food?
The stranger snatch her fellow-guest away?
The child of summer tear the summer-brood?
Dost thou not drop him?—O, 't is cruel, base,
When poets suffer by the poet race.
When poets suffer by the poet race.
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