 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pągines
...solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wiiifry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 278 pągines
...God, from bliss, and tbee, My own tormentor let me be, THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. BY r.MLI'SMTTir. NEA n yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flow'r grows wild; There, where a ftw torn shruhs the place disclose, The village preacher's... | |
 | John Sabine - 1807 - 316 pągines
...nightingale had made. GOLDSMITH. . __ ' ..'a.,' • - . . .«•- . . t- / The. TJie Country Clergyman. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
 | 1808 - 694 pągines
...Reflect, and think ho* many pine in want and wretchedness '. — Think how many > - < ' Fore'd in ajce, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick the wint'ry fagot from the thorn, To seek the nightly shed, and weep till monr!* As I pursued my walk... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 504 pągines
...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 cresses...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Remote tVom towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wisli'd to change his place : Unskilful... | |
 | 1809 - 488 pągines
...widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plathy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of alt the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Remote from towns he ran his godly... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pągines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly brnd beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron ! forc'd in age for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To stck her nightly shed, and vreep till morn , She or.ly left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pągines
...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 cresses...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 668 pągines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plasby spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pągines
...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 cresses...once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
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She, wretched 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... 
