“Maud Muller, on a summer's day,
Raked the meadows sweet with hay.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.”
Maud Muller (1856)
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Grow beautiful beneath his touch.”
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" Sonnet. To Science http://library.thinkquest.org/11840/Poe/science.html", l. 12-14 (1829).
“Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer’s day.”
Summer Evening.
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
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“Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
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An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”
Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)