 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 Seiten
...And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades,...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 Seiten
...thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 Seiten
...solitary guest, Tie hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flics, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 376 Seiten
...booming of the bittern.' Gold. An. Nat. vi. p. 2. And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Suuk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - Where wealth... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding-bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...half a tillage stints thy smiling plain : 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades,...nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, 45 And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 Seiten
...dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.' — Gold. An. Nat. vi. p. 'I. Amidst thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; __ And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land.... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 Seiten
...But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest, Amidst thy desert walks the...tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 Seiten
...And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way; Along thy glades,...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 Seiten
...half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades,...And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 49 Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth... | |
| |
No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges 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. 
