Harvest Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s 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 Barlow—The 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. Saadi—Gulistan. (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. Spenser—The Shepherd’s Calendar. December. L. 121.	8
Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you; Who pours abundance o’er your flowing fields, While those unhappy partners of your kind Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven, And ask their humble dole. Thomson—Autumn. 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. Warton—Ode. The First of April. L. 97.	10