 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 - 1905 - 916 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...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... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...its own unbalanced weight Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. 45 Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 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 drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. 44 Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. 4* Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And/Ail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he slow; and now with many a fi Wide scampering, snatches up the drifted... | |
 | William Cowper - 1908 - 632 pages
...unbalanced weight. 40 f ^Fbrth 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...own unbalanced weight. 2O 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 25 And tail cropped short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him: close behind his heel Now... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears 25 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 scamp'ring, snatches up the drifted... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...veil. COWPER, The Task. 2. 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...Act iii. Sc. 1. WOODMAN. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest...and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears, And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him. 5835 Cowper: Task. Bk. v. Line 41 WOOING... | |
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