 The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.  Poems, - Page 98by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1898 - 330 pages
...forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears 45 And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow ; and now with many a frisk Wide scampering, snatches up the drifted... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...will be of interest: — " Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest...half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow ; and now, with many a frisk Wide-scampering, snatches up the drifted... | |
 | Joseph Arthur Gibbs - Cotswold Hills (England) - 1899 - 498 pages
...Peregrine when out shooting on the hill; he seemed to spring up from the ground like " Herne the Hunter"— "Shaggy and lean and shrewd. With pointed ears And...short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him." The above lines of Cowper's exactly describe the keeper's Irish terrier ; the dog was almost as deep... | |
 | Edward Mallet Young - English poetry - 1900 - 228 pages
...THE WOODMAN AND HIS DOG. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest...half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow ; and now, with many a frisk Wide scampering, snatches up the drifted... | |
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - American literature - 1900 - 620 pages
...unbalanced weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the ax And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn...lurcher, and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow ; and now with many a frisk Wide scampering, snatches up the drifted... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...own unbalanced weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest...Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half Iurcher and half our, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he... | |
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - American literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the ax And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From rnorn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd,...lurcher, and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow ; and now with many a frisk Wide scampering, snatches up the drifted... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...own unbalanced weight. 40 Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest...task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears 45 And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Wide... | |
 | Charles Bullock - 1900 - 262 pages
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