 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades,...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...solitary guest, Tie hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flics, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1851 - 376 pages
...booming of the bittern.' Gold. An. Nat. vi. p. 2. And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Suuk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - Where wealth... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding-bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...half a tillage stints thy smiling plain : 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades,...nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, 45 And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 pages
...dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.' — Gold. An. Nat. vi. p. 'I. Amidst thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; __ And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land.... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest, Amidst thy desert walks the...tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way; Along thy glades,...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades,...And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 49 Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth... | |
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No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. 
