Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war... The Cornhill Magazine - Seite 465herausgegeben von - 1874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1842 - 414 Seiten
...fears, The lame, the blind, and far the happiest they, The moping idiot and the madman gay. * * * * Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor, And la the ragged infant threaten war, There poppies nodding mock the hope of toil,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...his usual force and correctness : — Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, I-end» at hath been seven days drowned My body lay afloat...swift as dreams, myself I found Within the pilot's b harrest wares its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and... | |
| 1859 - 868 Seiten
...been described by the poet himself, in lines to whoso force and minuteness nothing can be added: — " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor ; From thi'iicc a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest wave» its... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...with withering brake grown o'er, I,emis the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor; ¡•'r ma the sigh of Armin, he said ! Is there a cause to mourn ! The song comes, with its musi ; Ilank weeds, that every art and care defy, Ilcign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye : There... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...tree, But, wall-flower, loved wall-flower, Thou art the flower for me !" Mom. A BARREN TRACT OF LAND. Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Kank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| George Crabbe - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour, and bow'd down by time, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 Seiten
...the sandy and thinly inhabited shores of the Channel ; — " Lo ! where the heath, with with 'ring brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms...neighbouring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appear*, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears : There thistles stretch their prickly arms... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 Seiten
...childhood's fears, The lame, the blind, and far the happiest they, The moping idiot and the madman gay. 8* Lo ! where the heath , with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light tnrf that warms the neighbouring poor, From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin... | |
| George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 Seiten
...Village " was copied, in every touch, from the scene of the Poet's nativity and boyish day» : — " Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighltouring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harve.it waves ils... | |
| William Howitt - 1847 - 566 Seiten
...The Village was copied, in every touch, from the scene of the poet's nativity and boyish days : — ' Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms tbe neighboring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its... | |
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