 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1810 - 178 pages
...his labour, is employed by different masters for a length of time, proportioned to their occupations. Oft hear him murmur to the winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, rous'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 pages
...by different masters for a length of time, proportioned to their occupations. , .-.)- . : •; - * Oft hear him murmur to the winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, rous'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain*. Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft hear him murmur to the winds that blow O'er his white lock's and bury them in snow, When, rous'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 310 pages
...ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain*. Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep ;, Oft hear him murmur to...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, rous'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 304 pages
...ruthless tannts, of lazy poor complain*. Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft hear him murmur to...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roos'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 334 pages
...taunts, of lazy poor complain. (1) Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep; Oft hear him murmur to the...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn:—... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 296 pages
...ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain."' Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter-charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft hear him murmur to...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken edge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...in vain, With ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain. Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, rous'd by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...vain, With ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain.^) Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken edge with icy thorn : —... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 360 pages
...vain, With ruthless taunts, of lazy poor complain. (1) Oft may you see him, when he tends the sheep, His winter charge, beneath the hillock weep ; Oft...winds that blow O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn. He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : —... | |
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O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn, He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn: ' Why do I live, when I desire to be 'At once from life and life's long labour free? 
