 matron, forced, 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.  The History and Antiquities of Highgate, Middlesex ... - Pàgina 21per Frederick Prickett - 1842 - 174 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1795 - 432 pàgines
...widow'd soJitary thing, That feebly bends besides the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mant'ling...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. The man of wealth and pride, Takes up a space that many poor supply'd ; Space for his lake, his park's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pàgines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild; There,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pàgines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There,... | |
 | 1803 - 294 pàgines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron ! forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, Tp seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ! She only left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pàgines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plait). Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 236 pàgines
...the site of his school-house; and ' Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, " The wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches r near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses)... | |
 | 1809 - 488 pàgines
...yon widow'd solitary thing. That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once a garden, ws*!^. And still where many a gavdtta-ftcyww i^ws^-<H^A. There,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pàgines
...yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pàgines
...yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mora; ' She only left of all the harmless train. The sad historian of the pensive plain. ,«.TII;U... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pàgines
...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling...spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, And seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
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