 | 1792 - 112 sidor
...ftrip the brook with mantling crefTes fpread , To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn , To feek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmlefs train, The fad hiftorian of the penfive plain. NEAR yonder copfe where once the garden fmil'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 sidor
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left, of all the harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sidor
...of life is fled, All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To...the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 sidor
...village-master, ' and the site of his school-house; and * Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, *' The wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches * * near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses)... | |
 | 1808 - 694 sidor
...Reflect, and think ho* many pine in want and wretchedness '. — Think how many > - < ' Fore'd in ajce, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick the wint'ry fagot from the thorn, To seek the nightly shed, and weep till monr!* As I pursued my walk... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sidor
...of life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly brnd beside the plashy spring ; j $ x8 } _ f | . } ] Y M S G ? O I3 7< _ r 7 Z{ G T j .VܴɃ ڞR E + @2 stck her nightly shed, and vreep till morn , She or.ly left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 sidor
...flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To...spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, And seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
 | 1809 - 402 sidor
...flush of life is fled: All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bend beside the plasby spring; She, wretched matron! forc'd in age for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pitk her wintYy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mum; She only left,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 sidor
...of life is, fled : All hut yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To...the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mom : She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 sidor
...life is fled, ' C All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, Thet feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantlhig cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep... | |
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She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread... 
