 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sidor
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread; To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Remote tVom towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wisli'd to change his place : Unskilful... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 sidor
...forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...plain. * Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 sidor
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread* To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrnbs the place... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sidor
...forc'd, in age for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 sidor
...cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mom : She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian...the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the gtrte* smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 sidor
...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...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 sidor
...forced, in age, for bread, ifo strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 sidor
...forc'd in age, for bread. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plaiu. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, -'till where many a garden flower grows wild... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 sidor
...forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 sidor
...thing, That feebly hends bcsidc the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, fore'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smilM, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrnbs the place disclose,... | |
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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 train, The sad historian of the pensive plain... 
