 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...works its weedy way ; Along thy glades a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amid thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the l<5ng grass1 o'ertops the moldering wall ; And,... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - Gift books - 1864 - 540 pages
...works its weedy way ; Along thy glades a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1864 - 182 pages
...its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding-bittern, guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; ' Our... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'crtops the mouldering wall ; And,... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries j Sunk are thy bowers, in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall : And,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - English poetry - 1867 - 200 pages
...works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, , And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And,... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...works its weedy way. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And,... | |
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And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. 
