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" Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix i' the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till the stalks of it seem a-tingle. Late August or early September, the stunning cicala is shrill, And the bees keep their tiresome whine round the resinous... "
The poetical works of Robert Browning - Page 125
by Robert Browning - 1882
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Men and Women

Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...cypress that points like Death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix in the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till...— I spare you the months of the fever and chill. Ere opening your eyes in the city, the blessed churchbells begin : No sooner the bells leave off, than...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 49

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1861 - 696 pages
...cypress that points like Death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix in the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till...— I spare you the months of the fever and chill. Ere opening your eyes in the city, the blessed church-bells begin : No sooner the bells leave off,...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...cypress that points like Death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix in the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till...— I spare you the months of the fever and chill. IX. Ere opening your eyes in the city, the blessed churchbells begin : No sooner the bells leave off,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 118

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1865 - 736 pages
...cypress that points like Death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty when they mix in the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till...— I spare you the months of the fever and chill. Ere opening your eyes in the city, the blessed church bells begin : No sooner the bells leave off,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 118

English literature - 1865 - 610 pages
...cypress that points like Death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty when they mix in the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till...it seem a-tingle. Late August or early September, tho stunning cicala is shrill, And the bees keep their tiresome whine round the resinous firs ou the...
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Selections from [his] Poetical Works

Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...nothing to see though you linger, Except yon cypress that points like death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix i' the...— I spare you the months of the fever and chill. IX. Ere you open your eyes in the city, the blessed churchbells begin : No sooner the bells leave off...
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Men and Women

Robert Browning - 1876 - 360 pages
...Except yon cypress that points like Death's lean lifted Sobie think fireflies pretty, when they mix in the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till...Enough of the seasons, — I spare you the months of tLe fever and chill. 9. Ere opening your eyes in the city, the blessed churchbells begin : No sooner...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...feet and a half: " He hath flown on his steed to the hills in the dusk of the morning." Six feet : " And the bees keep their tiresome whine round the resinous firs on the hill." Six feet and a half: " And the duke's guard brings up the rear for the better prevention of scandals."...
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Lyrical and Dramatic Poems: Selected from the Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...cypress that points like Death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix in the corn and mingle, Or thrid the stinking hemp till the stalks of it seem Late August or early September, the stunning cicala is shrill, And the bees keep up their tiresome...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning: First Series

Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...nothing to see though you linger, Except yon cypress that points like death's lean lifted forefinger. Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix i' the...— I spare you the months of the fever and chill. IX Ere you open your eyes in the city, the blessed churchbells begin : No sooner the bells leave off...
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