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.
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes. XI. 4.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.
Ecclesiastes. XI. 6.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Galatians. VI. 7.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.
Matthew. IX. 37.
Who eat their corn while yet ’tis green,
At the true harvest can but glean.
Saadi—Gulistan. (Garden of Roses.)
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps.
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 Calendar. 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.