 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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.  The Munster Cottage Boy: A Tale ... - Page 237by Regina Maria Roche - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...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 train, • '. The sad historian of the pensive plain. , • Near... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...forced, 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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. JSear yonder copse,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...forced 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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pic« her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She onlv left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near vender copse,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot }:/h}:/ P}:/ She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Nearyonder copse,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...forced 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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...fore'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling eresses spread, To piek her wint'ry faggot es in seareh - )f Hudibras upon their mareh : Where leave wo ; She only left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder eopse,... | |
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