| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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