 | 1797 - 420 pagina’s
...grew. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground. And tarn me thrice around, around, around. At eve last midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hempseed brought; I scaiter'd round the seed on ev'ry side, And three times in a trembling accent cry'd, 33 This hempseed... | |
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pagina’s
...[ground, ' With my sharp heel I three times mark the And turn me thrice around, around, around. 26 ' At eve last midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the...of hempseed brought ; I scatter'd round the seed on every side, And three times in a trembling accent cried, 30 " This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pagina’s
...grew. * With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. ' At eve last midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hempseed brought; 1 scatter'd round the seed on every aide, And three times in a trembling accent cried, " This hempseed... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 510 pagina’s
...passage from Gay may be added to the Incantations of rustic Maids, relative to their Lovers. P. 344. " At Eve last Midsummer no Sleep I sought, " But to the Field a Bag of Hemp-seed brought; " I scattered round the Seed on every Side, " And three Times in a trembling Accent cry'd, " This Hemp-seed... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pagina’s
...three times mark the ground And turn me tin ice around,- around, around.' " At eve last Midsummer ho sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hemp-seed brought; I scatterM round the seed on every side, And threetimes in a trembling accent cry'd, 30 ' This hemp-seed... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pagina’s
...grew. " With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around." At eve last midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the...hemp-seed brought : I scatter'd round the seed on every side, And three times in a trembling accent cry'd, " This hemp-seed with my virgin hand I sow,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagina’s
...grew. ' With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.' " ainty divides : By passions ? these dissimulation...? they still take a wider range : Find, if you ca every side, And three times in a trembling accent cry'd, 30 ' This hemp-seed with my virgin hand I... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 364 pagina’s
...grew. ' With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. " At eve last Midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the...hemp-seed brought ; I scatter'd round the seed on every side, And three times in a trembling accent cry'd, 30 ' This hemp-seed with my virgin hand I... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pagina’s
...' With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, 25 And turn me thrice around, around, around. ' At eve last Midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the...of hempseed brought; I scatter'd round the seed on every side, And three times in a trembling accent cried, 30 " This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow,... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pagina’s
...sometimes till cock-crow. Some Midsummer-eve rites are thus noticed by Gay, in his Fourth Pastoral: At eve last Midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hemp-teed brought: I scattered round the seed on every side, And three times, in a trembling accent,... | |
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This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow, Who shall my true love be, the crop shall mow. 
