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" 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 pensive plain. "
A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse - Page 322
edited by - 1907 - 484 pages
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn, She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. ****** The man of...
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn.; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...grass-grown footway tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She,...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, of all the harmless...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy 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 pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once a garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...yon 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...thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; - She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Remote tVom towns...
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