 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...children leave the land. . * * * # * * The sounds of population fail, No chearful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way...but yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends besides the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale: . No busy steps the grass-grown footway...all the bloomy flush of life is fled, All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the. grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy... | |
 | J. T. Barber - Gwent (Wales) - 1803 - 436 pages
...its legions, now with difficulty traced among barren fields remote from habitation ; "No " No bnsy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, " But all the bloomy flush of life is fled." From a fatiguing day's journey we gladly reposed at a better inn than might be expected in so poor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled:.... All but yon widow 'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale ; No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled ; All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale : No busy steps the grass-grown footway...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown loot-way tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled, All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way...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... | |
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But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled... 
