She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot 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... The Fifth Progressive Reader - Seite 274von Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 Seiten
...forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantlhig cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...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... | |
| 1814 - 310 Seiten
...forced, in age, for bread, ifo strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...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 wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn : She only left, of all the harmless... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 Seiten
...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, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 Seiten
...!i.« M, solitary thing, That feebly hends bcsidc the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, fore'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 smilM, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 Seiten
...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 To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 Seiten
...flush of life is fled: All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spreadTo pick her wintry fagot from the thorn— To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn: She... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 Seiten
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...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... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 Seiten
...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 wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 Seiten
...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 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... | |
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