 Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, Though timorous of heart, and hard beset By death in various forms, dark snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless want....  The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson - Page 195by James Thomson - 1908 - 516 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urg'd on by fearless want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair; then, sad dispers'd, Dig for the wither' d herb through heaps of snow. THOMAS GRAY. Born AD 1716, died 1771.... | |
 | James Thomson, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1853 - 408 pages
...dogs, And more uupitying men — the garden seeks, 260 Urged on by fearless want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth,...of dumb despair ; then, sad-dispersed, Dig for the wither'd herb through heaps of snow. Now, shepherds, to your helpless charge be kind ; Baffle the raging... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...snares, and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, TJrg'd on by fearless want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad, dispers'd Dig for the wither'd herb through heaps of snow. Thomson. LESSON IX.— THURSDAY. ENGLISH... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...and dogs. And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urg'd on by fearless want. The bleating kind €; Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth. With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispers'd, Dig for the withered herb through heaps of snow. JAMES THOMSON, 1700-1748. WINTER SONG.... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...snares, mid dogs, And more unpitying man, the garden seeks, Urged on by fearless Want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispersed, Dig for the withered herb through heaps of snow. As thus the snows arise ; and foul,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 588 pages
...Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds Pour forth thcir brown inhabitants. nnnnnn The bleating kine Eye the bleak heaven, and next, the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispersed. Dig for the wither'd herb through heaps of snow." le WINTER AND NEW YEAR Alfred Tennyson,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 314 pages
...doubtful — for Jemmy was never utterly in the wrong in any sentiment. Again — " The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair." The second line is perfect; but the Ettrick Shepherd agreed with us — one night at Ambrose's —... | |
 | James Thomson - 1854 - 404 pages
...and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad-dispersed, Dig for the wither'd herb through heaps of snow. Now, shepherds, to your helpless charge be kind ; Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch... | |
 | 1854 - 402 pages
...covered o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. .... The bleating kine Eye the blsak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad, dispersed, Dig for the withered herb, through heaps of snow." Besides, the snow yields many pleasures... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...snares and dogs, And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, Urg'd on by fearless want. The bleating kind Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening earth, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispers'd, Dig for the withered herb through heaps of snow. JAMES THOMSON, 1700-174S. WINTER SONG.... | |
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