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" Where the dark scorpion gathers death around; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls... "
The Poetical Works of John Milton ... - Page 9
by John Milton - 1824 - 131 pages
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Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign ...

John Moore - 1792 - 584 pages
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men, more murd'rous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prejr, i And savage men more murd'rous still than they ; \VI iilc oft in whirls the mad tornado flies,...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...all that charm'd before, The various terrours of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns, that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...each step, the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrours of the vengeful snake ; Where, crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men, more...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tygers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murd'rous still than they ; While oft in whirls...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poib'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tygers wait llieir hapless prey, And savage men more murd'rous still than they; "While oft in whirls...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murd'rous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tygers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murd'rous still than they : While oft in whirls...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark...rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tygers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murd'rous still than they; While oft in whirls...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...from all that charnrd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns, that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day...to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake : AVhere crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men, more murderous still than they ;...
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