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Harvest: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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.

To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 102.

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.— SPENSER — The Shepherd's Calender. December. L. 121.

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.

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.