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" To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. "
Studies in English and American Literature, from Chaucer to the Present Time ... - Page 137
by Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 468 pages
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mant'ling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn, She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. ****** The man of wealth and pride, Takes up a space that many...
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden sm i I'd , And still...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn.; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To...till morn ; She only left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once a garden smil'd, And still where...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread} To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread; To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...till morn; - She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Remote tVom towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd,...
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