And, lavish as leaves, the rustling sheaves Bring plenty and joy and rest; For they strew the plains and crowd the wains When the reapers meet at morn, Till blithe cheers ring and west winds sing A song for the garnered Corn.
By Samuel Minturn Peck 90 ON THE WING Sing On, Blithe Bird.
The weary couriers paused and looked At the scamp so blithe and gay; And one of them said, "Heaven save you, friend!
Rich in the things contentment brings, In every pure enjoyment wealthy, Blithe and beautiful bird she sings, For body and mind are hale and healthy.
For I am blithe and I am gay, While they sit sighing night and day.
His Lordship is constitutionally as blithe as a bird--he trills upon the bench like a thing of song and gladness.
He saw her from time to time in the course of the evening, and she seemed so blithe and happy that he knew there was no shadow in her young heart.
They could not understand how the husband could be so blitheand cheery, so upstanding and strong, and so devoted.
The experienced reader may have already remarked, that the last chapter was employed in sweeping out of the way all the unnecessary and less interesting characters, that I might clear the floor for a blithe bridal.
I am tauld, being, dootless, sic as it is desirable that young noblemen should herd withal--and your noble father wad have been blithe to see you keeping such worshipful society.
Troth, and I am all the followers he has, for the present that is; and blithe wad I be if he were muckle better aff than I am, though I were to bide as I am.
A village schoolmaster was he, 5 With hair of glittering grey; As blithe a man as you could see On a spring holiday.
But, whether blithe or sad, 'tis my belief His absent Brother still was at his heart.
She was young—perhaps the idol of her happy home; she was as gay and blithe as the lark, and the brothers and sisters at her father's cherished her as an object of endearment.
The bosom may ache beneath diamond broaches, or a blithe heart dance under coarse wool sacks.
Now Asmund went to visit at Coldback, and there he saw Unna, and was pleased with her, for she was a blithe woman and a bonny.
Blithe was Atli the Earl, and Swanhild was all changed, for now she seemed the gentlest of maids, and, as befitted one about to be made a wife, moved through the house with soft words and downcast eyes.
Was her blithe acquiescence, after all, but an assumed virtue, to whose outward rags she clung?
To Lila's surprise, he was not the least embarrassed by the personal tone of the conversation, and his sparkling blue eyes held their usual expression of blithe good-humour.
Trivial as the recollection was, it started other associations, and he followed the escaping memory of that boyish romance, blithe and short-lived, which was killed at last by a single yielded kiss.
His demerits, indeed, served to bring the meal to a blitheand chatty close.
Inside, the sufferer lay holding a hand of Nancy between his cheek and the pillow--with intervals of silence and blithe speech.
When that I was a tiny boy My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind!
Oh, when I was a tiny boy, My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind!
Said she, "I loved a soldier once, For he was blithe and brave; But I will never have a man With both legs in the grave!
Jack Harris weds his second wife; Hal Baylis drives the wane of life; And blithe Carew--is hung!
She wouldn't go unless--" He threw back his head looking at her, a blithe defiance creeping into his eyes and voice.
He was looking into the distance, dazed by the tumult within him, when a blithe voice called him, and glancing up he saw Deirdre standing on the bank by the roadside.
He would have him quivering with wrath, impotent against that bitter, blithe wit and the laughter it raised.
Notwithstanding his blithe recklessness, his daring and bragging enthusiasm, there was a stern quality, an unplumbed depth in Conal.
Very grave were the faces gathered about the breakfast table next morning, and very anxious the glances cast on Sir Jasper as he came in, late as usual, looking uncommonly blithe and well.
Red-cushioned seats stood in recessed window nooks, and from behind a high-covered screen of oak sounded the blithe air of Sir Roger de Coverley.
Pleasure and pain of a noble sort are woven in every fibre of this sparkling casting-up of the blithe years.
It was just in prime condition, sharpened with a blithe tingle, beaded with a pleasing bubble of froth.
In the car, a handsome young rogue at the wheel, and who was this blithe creature in shiny leather coat and leather cap, with crumpling dark curls cascading beneath it?
So old Félice was happy that pleasant time in that fair country, and Petit-Poulain waxed hale and evermore blithe and beautiful.
As readily, as gladly, and as surely as your dear mother would lay down her life for you would old Félice have yielded up her life for her innocent, blithe darling.
But what perfected her happiness was the coming of her little colt, as cunning and as blithe a creature as ever whisked a tail or galloped on four legs.
If his songs that day were not so blithe as usual it was because of the words that the rose had spoken.
The person in authority here was a youthful and blithe lieutenant--an Iron Cross man--with pale, shallow blue eyes and a head of bright blond hair.
There was a blithe young officer who insisted on wheeling out of the line and halting us, and passing the time of day with us.
Now, blithe companies of Gnats hum and hover up and down in the warm air, like motes in a sunbeam.
The laurestinus still braves the winds and the frosts, and blooms in blithe defiance of them.
Robin, that herds on the height, can be blithe as Sir Robert the Knight.
The weary courtiers paused and looked At the scamp so blithe and gay; And one of them said, "Heaven save you, friend!
The track grew fair with turf and tree, The air was blithe with bird and flower.
Golden bells of welcome rolled Never forth such note, nor told Hours so blithe in tones so bold, As the radiant mouth of gold Here that rings forth heaven.
He is the sun's brave herald That, ringing hisblithe horn, Calls round a world dew-pearled The heavenly airs of morn.
Under that fleecy tent, Careless of cold, Blithe little Dandelion Counteth her gold.
Blithe Paragon of Alpine grace, Be as thou art--for through thy veins The blood of Heroes runs its race!
But one blithe morning she sent him a note: What's this I hear?
To a spirit lessblithe than hers the outlook would have been gloomy enough, for all the morning the clouds scurried fast overhead and squalls of rain and fog drove into the misty south.
There’s pleasant Teviot Dale, a land Made blithe with plough and harrow, Why throw away a needful day, To go in search of Yarrow?
How sweet is the scent of the daffodil bloom, When blithespring decks each spray, And the flowering thorn sheds rare perfume Through the beautiful month of May!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blithe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
