The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Spring’ l. 1161
The sober-suited songstress.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Summer’ l. 746 (referring to the nightingale)
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Summer’ l. 946
Or sighed and looked unutterable things.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Summer’ l. 1188
Autumn nodding o’er the yellow plain
Comes jovial on.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Autumn’ l. 2
While listening senates hang upon thy tongue.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Autumn’ l. 15
For loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorned adorned the most.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Autumn’ l. 204
Poor is the triumph o’er the timid hare!
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Autumn’ l. 401
He stands at bay,
And puts his last weak refuge in despair.
The big round tears run down his dappled face;
He groans in anguish; while the growling pack,
Blood-happy, hang at his fair jutting chest,
And mark his beauteous chequered sides with gore.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Autumn’ l. 452 (referring to a stag).
Find other lands beneath another sun.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Autumn’ l. 1286
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Winter’ l. 1
Welcome, kindred glooms!
Congenial horrors, hail!
‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Winter’ l. 5
The redbreast, sacred to the household gods,
Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky,
In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves
His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man
His annual visit.