 Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far beyond, and overthwart the stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale, The sloping land recedes into the clouds; Displaying on...  Poems - Page 7by William Cowper - 1808Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...beside His lab' ring team, that swerv'd not from the track, The sturdy swain diminish'd to a boy ! Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious...with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along its sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlook'd, our fav'rite... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 512 pages
...and Olney, soon afterwards, turning suddenly to the east, it leaves the county near Bray field. The Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious...with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along its sinuous course Delighted. COWFER'STASK. The THAME rises near the borders of the county in Hertfordshire,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Anglesey (Wales) - 1801 - 474 pages
...and Olney; soon afterwards, turning suddenly to the east, it leaves the county near Brayfield. The Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious...with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along its sinuous course Delighted. Cow FER'S TASK. The THAME rises near the borders of the county in Hertfordshire,... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 330 pages
...turning suddenly to the east, leaves the county near Snelson in the parish of Latendon. " The Ousc, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads,...with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along its smuou* course, Delighted." Cmci,er's Tuik. The Colne forms a part of the eastern boundarv trf the... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...beside 160 His lab'ring team, that swerv'd not from the track, The sturdy swain diminish'd to a boy '. Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conduces the eye along his sinuous course 165 Delighted. There, fast rootetl in their bank, Stand,... | |
 | James Storer, James Sargant Storer, John Greig - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1803 - 116 pages
...and conspicuous. The accompanying scenery is charmingly described by the poet in the following lines: Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious...with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along its sinuous course, Delighted. While far beyond, and over-thwart the stream, That, as with molten glass,... | |
 | James Storer, James Sargant Storer, John Greig - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1803 - 102 pages
...and conspicuous. The accompanying scenery is charmingly described by the poet in the following lines: Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious...with cattle sprinkled o'er, Conducts the eye along its sinuous course, Delighted. While far beyond, and over• thwart the stream, That, as with molten... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...beside His labouring team, that swerved not from the track, The sturdy swain diminished to a boy ! Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled over, Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...boy!' Here Ouse, slow winding through a level plaia' Of spacious meads with cattle sprinkled over, ' Conducts the eye along his sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlooked, our favourite elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut; While far... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...lab'ring tram, that swerv'd not from the track, The sturdy swain diminish'd to a boy! Here Ouse, stow winding through a level plain Of spacious meads with...sinuous course Delighted. There, fast rooted in their bank, Stand, never overlook'd, our fav'rile elms, That screen the herdsman's solitary hut ; While far... | |
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