 | Charles Preston Weaver - English literature - 1924 - 148 pages
...highly conventionalized in later literature. Parnell, in his famous poem, The Hermit, writes : "The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well." A similar detail likewise appears in the description of the hermitage occupied by the... | |
 | Education - 1924 - 152 pages
...highly conventionalized in later literature. Parnell, in his famous poem, The Hermit, writes : "The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well." A similar detail likewise appears in the description of the hermitage occupied by the... | |
 | English poetry - 1930 - 516 pages
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FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days Prayer all his business, all his... 
