Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyts New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. | | Harvest |
| For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th invited neighbors to the husking come; A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play Unite their charms to cheer the hours away. Joel BarlowThe Hasty Pudding. | 1 |
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes. XI. 4. | 2 |
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand. Ecclesiastes. XI. 6. | 3 |
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians. VI. 7. | 4 |
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Matthew. IX. 37. | 5 |
Who eat their corn while yet tis green, At the true harvest can but glean. SaadiGulistan. (Garden of Roses.) | 6 |
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 102. | 7 |
And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. SpenserThe Shepherds Calendar. December. L. 121. | 8 |
Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you; Who pours abundance oer your flowing fields, While those unhappy partners of your kind Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven, And ask their humble dole. ThomsonAutumn. L. 169. | 9 |
Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance; The field, the forest, green and gay; The dappled slope, the tedded hay; Sees the reddening orchard blow, The Harvest wave, the vintage flow. WartonOde. The First of April. L. 97. | 10 | |
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