 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...Far, far away thy children leave the land. . * * * # * * The sounds of population fail, No chearful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown...but yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends besides the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...mind; These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...all the bloomy flush of life is fled, All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...steps the. grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled:.... All but yon widow 'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...; These all, in sweet confusion, sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...gale ; No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filPd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled ; All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...mind ; These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And lill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. To pick her wint'ry faggot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread} To pick her wintry faggot... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...mind; These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...pause the nightingale had made,. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuated the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread,...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... | |
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All but yon 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... 
