 | 1795 - 432 Seiten
...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 mant'ling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn, She only left... | |
 | 1800 - 322 Seiten
...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly 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 from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 Seiten
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly 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 from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 Seiten
...widow 'd, solitary thing, That feebly 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 from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn.; She only left... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 Seiten
...life is fled. 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, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 Seiten
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly 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 from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 Seiten
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip 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... | |
 | 1806 - 330 Seiten
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly 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 from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 236 Seiten
...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...spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches r near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses) still remain in ' the memory of the inhabitants,... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 Seiten
...is ' described exactly as he lived ; and his ' " modest mansion" as it existed. 141 ' Burn, the name of the village-master, ' and the site of his school-house;...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... | |
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She, wretched matron, forced 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 till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the... 
