 | George Crabbe - Poetry, English - 1808 - 276 pages
...The Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet prais'd his native plains ; No shepherds now in smooth alternate...we frame the tender strain, Still in our lays, fond CORTDONS complain, And shepherds' boys., their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...The Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet prais'd his native plains ; No shepherds now in smooth alternate...verse, Their country's beauty or their nymphs' rehearse j Yet still for these we frame the tender strain, Still in our lays, fond CORYDONS complain, And shepherds'... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic Poet prais'd his native Plains : No Shepherds now, in smooth alternate...we frame the tender strain, Still in our Lays fond CORYDOHS complain, And Shepherds' Boys their amorous pains reveal, The only paina, alas ! they never... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 304 pages
...the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic Poet prais'd his native Plains : No Shepherds now, in smooth alternate...Their Country's beauty or their Nymphs' rehearse; Yet (till for these we frame the tender strain, Still in our Lays fond CORYDONS complain, And Shepherds'... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 310 pages
...the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic Poet prais'd his native Plains : No Shepherds now, in smooth alternate...verse, Their Country's beauty or their Nymphs' rehearse ; Vet still for these we frame the tender strain, Still in our Lays fond CORYDONS complain, And Shepherds'... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 334 pages
...languor, finds at last; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song—the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains,...plains: No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, Then- country's beauty or their nymphs ' rehearse; Yet still for these we frame the tender strain,... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...over the defenceless fold; look round in vain for pristine innocence, and am soon convinced, that, " ' No shepherds, now, in smooth alternate verse, Their country's beauty, or their nymphs rehearse,' " " The Poets," observed the stranger, " have long been practising an illusion on our credulity; and... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...finds at last ; What form the real Picture of the Poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains,...these we frame the tender strain, Still in our lays fund Corydons complain, And shepherds' boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1829 - 348 pages
...poet praised his native plains: No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, Their eonntry's heanty or their nymphs' rehearse; Yet still for these we frame the tender strain, Still in onr lays fond Corydons eomplain, And shepherds' hoys their аmorоus pains reveal, The only pains,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...finds at last^ ; What form the real Picture of the Poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains,...shepherds' boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains (2), alas ! they never feel. (1) [Strephon. " In spring the fields, in autumn hills I love, At morn... | |
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Yet still for these we frame the tender strain, Still in our lays fond Corydons complain, And shepherds' boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas ! they never feel. 
