 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
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...own unbalanced weight. 40 Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to il P / 45 And tail cropped short, half lurcher 1 and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...own unbalanced weight. 40 Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to t of true Lutheran beer (in which chiefly my friend...reconciles me to the rationalities of a purer faith; cars 45 And tail cropped short, half lurcher1 and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel... | |
 | American fiction - 1916 - 548 pages
...unseen, now shine Conspicuous and in bright apparel clad, And, fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears, And...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... | |
 | 1870 - 750 pages
...leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he... | |
 | Henry Adelbert White - English language - 1922 - 360 pages
...their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil. — COLLINS. k. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And...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... | |
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...one of them secondhanded," Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From mom to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears, And tail cropped short,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...own unbalanced weight. 40 Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful haunts of man, to ger bright ! But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And 45 And tail cropped short, half lurcher1 and hall cur, His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now... | |
 | English philology - 1928 - 432 pages
...its own unbalanc'd 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 lurcher and half cur — His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - Art - 1999 - 360 pages
...Cowper's The Task (11.41-4): Forth goes the woodman leaving unconcern'd The cheerfull haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Despite the story of Gainsborough's 'poor smith', The Task is a religious poem, and Cowper's woodman,... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Collections - 2003 - 124 pages
...unbalanc'd weight. 40 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 lurcher and half cur— His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps he... | |
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