 | George Crabbe - 1905 - 568 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war ; 70 There poppies, nodding, mock the hope of toil ; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - 1906 - 456 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...threaten war ; There poppies nodding, mock the hope of loil ; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; Hardy and high above the slender sheaf The... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 596 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...toil ; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; poet. It is certain that Johnson's first four lines are better than Crabbe's, but this is not the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war; 70 There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil ; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ;... | |
 | Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - 1907 - 588 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infants threaten war ; There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil ; There the blue bugloss paints... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - 1907 - 484 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles spread their prickly arms afar And to the ragged infant threaten war ; There poppies, nodding, mock... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1921 - 522 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears. Where the thin harvest ware* its wither'd ear* ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye : There thittlee stretch their prickly arm* afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war ; There poppicn nodding,... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 1924 - 284 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest wavea its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...toil;' There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; Handy and high, above the slender sheaf, The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf ; O'er the young shoot... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1925 - 488 pàgines
...description : Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Iteign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye Then thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the...; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil. That is observation as minute as Tennyson's — but how far from his charm of style and metre ! It... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pàgines
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, 65 Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears; Rank tes in simple guise, They tune their hearts, by far...Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name; Or noble 70 There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil; Hardy... | |
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And to the ragged infant threaten war ; There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil; Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf, The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf... 
