 All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron — forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread...  Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ... - Page 494redigeeritud poolt - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 lehte
...vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...gale; No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled : All but yon widow*d, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 lehte
...nightingale had made. GOLDSMITH. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate iu the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread,...the blooming' flush of life is fled : All but yon widowed solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashing spring ; She, wretched matron, forced,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1922 - 290 lehte
...place which now consists of a few scattered houses whose outside brick chimneys look defiant of time. "But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled." Goldsmith. Colchester is a veritable deserted village. That it was a... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 lehte
...And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No chearful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widow' d solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 lehte
...maintained its man." 56 The glorious "was" inevitably yields to a "now" of decadence and falling away: "But now the sounds of population fail, / No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale." 57 In Newman, too: Tis altered now;—for Adam's eldest born Has trained our practice in a selfish... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 lehte
...steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed, solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread," To pick her wintry faggot... | |
 | Sean Dunne - 1957 - 496 lehte
...vacant mind — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 lehte
...in on the poet's memory, we are with him still: But now the sounds of population fail, No chearful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed, solitary thing That feebly bends beside... | |
 | Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 332 lehte
...the only human figure in the village: For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed, solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, . . . She only left of... | |
 | Margaret Greenwood, Mark Connolly - 2003 - 940 lehte
...There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, 5 The mingling notes came softened from below. O •jj But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...gale, No busy steps the grassgrown foot-way tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. The poem is a protest against an oppression of the rural... | |
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