 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sidor
...cold ? And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose harvest : shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Kv'n of the clown he feeds ;... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 sidor
...cold ? and the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds 1... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sidor
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended ? he, whose toil. Patient, and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest ; shall he bleed. And, struggling, groan beneath the cruel hands Even of the clown he feeds... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 438 sidor
...cold. And the plain ox, Thut harmless , honest , guileless animal , In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Ev'n of the clown he feeds? and... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 sidor
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient, and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds ?... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sidor
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds? and... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 sidor
...cold ? And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has be offended ? he, whose toil, Patient and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest ; shall he bleed. ' (J And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 sidor
...cold. And the plain ox, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended? he, whose toil, Patient, and ever ready, clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest; shall he hleed. And struggling groan heneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds? and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sidor
...cold ? And the plain 01, That harmless, honest, guileless animal, In what has he offended Î he, whose y, titles, wealth, and fame. How lov'd, how honor'd once, avails th harvest: shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Ev'n of the clown he feeds ;... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 sidor
...sufferer are sometimes the only resource he has left to make bis destitute case known. The plain ox, whose toil, Patient and ever ready , clothes the land With all the pomp of harvest, shall he bleed, And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands E'en of the clown he feeds? (Thomson.)... | |
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What have ye done; ye peaceful people, what, To merit death ? you, who have given us milk In luscious streams, and lent us your own coat Against the winter's cold? 
