 Than those of age•, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art...  The Popular Educator - Page 411867Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...RULER OF THE INVERTED YEAR ! thy scattered hair with sleet-like ashes f. lied, thy breath congealed upon thy lips, thy cheeks fringed with a beard made...white with other snows than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, a leajless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne a sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urg'd by storms along its slipp'ry way, 1 love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...Winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...rough seas and mountains bare, Yet ne'er forsake my elbow chair. Soame Jenyns. Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...with other snows Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne 125 A sliding car indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...rough seas and mountains bare, Yet ne'er forsake my elbow chair. Soame Jenyns. Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...with other snows Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne 125 A sliding car indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...lips, thy che«KS ','d with a heard made white with other snows those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd In clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urg'd by storms along Us slipp'ry way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st. And dreaded as thou... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne 125 A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art. Thou hold'st... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...Winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet-like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...lips, thy cheek Fringed with a oeard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy...indebted to no wheels, ' But urged by storms along its slippery way. Cowper's minor poems are full of beauties of the most varied kind ; and for pathos... | |
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