 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...sinners take thy name in vain, And learn to curse, and learn to swear. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours hard to store it well With... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - Readers - 1822 - 186 pages
...at their head, swarm off from the parental habitation in quest of a new abode. LESSON FROM «HE BEE. How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining...honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to store it well With... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1823 - 158 pages
...delight, By day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by night. SECTION IV. On Industry. 1. How does the little busy* bee Improve each shining hour ; And gather honey all the day, From every op'ning flower! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours hard... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...ceaseless task of collecting his varied sweets to form honey. Still doth the little busy Bee Employ each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. Charlotte Smith thus addresses the Bee :— Good morrow, gentle humble Bee, You are abroad betimes,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Children's stories - 1825 - 196 pages
...prettily. Mamma said," Have you nothing to say to these pretty bees, Louisa?" Then I said to them, " How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, And gather ho»ey all the day from every opening flower.'' They had a most beautiful flower-bed to gather it from... | |
 | William Wilson (Vicar of Walthamstow.) - Church schools - 1829 - 322 pages
...AID OF RECITATION. THE BEE. Can any of my little children say to me a verse of a hymn ?—Yes, sir. " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day " From every opening flower." The bee! Who has ever seen a bee ?— I have, sir. Well, what sort of a thing is a bee ?—It is like... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Children's poetry, English - 1829 - 76 pages
...thy name in vain, And learn to curse and learn to swear. SONG XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. 1 How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flow'r! 2 How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads her wax! And labours... | |
 | Easy and familiar sermons - Religious life - 1830 - 176 pages
...works, for fear they should become like the unprofitable servant who was cast into outer darkness. How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every op'ning flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labours hard to... | |
 | William Wilson (Vicar of Walthamstow.) - Church schools - 1830 - 246 pages
...any of my little children say to me .a verse of a hymn?—Yes, sir. " How doth the little, busy bet Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. The bee ! Who has ever seen a bee ?—/ have, sir. Well, what sort of a thing is a bee ?—It is like... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children's poetry - 1831 - 178 pages
...day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by night. WATTS. SECTION IV. On Industry. 1. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day, From every op'ning flow'r ! 2. How skilfully she builda her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! How skillfully she builds her cell! • How neat she spreads the wax! And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. 
