"Blithesome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of youth on cheek and lip, Turning the spokes with the flashing pin, Twisting the thread from the spindle-tip, Stretching it out and winding it in, To and fro, with a blithesome tread, Singing she goes, and her heart is full, And many a long-drawn golden thread Of fancy, is ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin
... die that ever wrought for truth; Thereby a law of Nature it became, And lives unwithered in its blithesome youth, When he who called it ...
— Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" • Various
... children learn the lesson, Though 'twas never written down? We shall know when, gay and blithesome, Lady ...
— Pinafore Palace • Various
... his life, and that he was going to throw overboard all his other sweethearts at once and cleave to her alone; and Miss Felicia vowed that she was the life of the party; and Jack devoured her with his eyes, his heart thumping away at high pressure; and so the moments fled until the blithesome young girl, saying she had not a minute to spare, as she had to meet her father, who would not wait, readjusted her wraps, kissed Miss Felicia on both cheeks, sent another flying through the air toward Peter from the tips of her fingers, and with Jack as escort—he also had to see a friend ...
— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith
... eyrie home, The blithesome bird its quiet rest, But not the humblest spot on earth Was by ...
— Poems • Frances E. W. Harper
... mirthful?—then we'll sing Of wayward feasts and frolicking;— Tell jests and gibes,—nor lack we store Of knightly tales, and monkish lore; High freaks of dames and cavaliers, Of warlocks, spectres, elfs, and seers, Till with glad heart, and blithesome brow, Ye bless your brothers of ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 264, July 14, 1827 • Various
... Augustus—the beach is a-spray; Blithesome the bee and the hive full alway; Better work than the bow hath the sickle to-day; Fuller the stack than the House of the Play; The Churl who cares neither to work nor to pray Now why should he cumber the earth with his clay? Justly St. Breda, ...
— A Celtic Psaltery • Alfred Perceval Graves
... only," answered Percival, with his blithesome laugh,—"you, my sweet Helen, much better than nymph or sylphid, about whom, between ourselves, I never cared three straws, even in a poem. How pleased you will be with Laughton! Do you know, I was lying awake all last night to consider what ...
— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... of monopoly, And sang of her swift decay, And traveled the track of the railway back With a blithesome roundelay— ...
— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley |
