 Forbear, my son," the hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. • • Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still ; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good...  Poetical Works - Page 49by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1915 - 368 lehte
...Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, — how exquisite the bliss ! — BUBNS Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. — GOLDSMITH *T is a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 lehte
..."Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, 15 I give it with good will. "Then turn to-night, and freely share Whate'cr my cell bestows. My rushy couch and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. 20 "No flocks that... | |
 | Philadelphia Bible-Christian church. Maintenance committee - 1922 - 240 lehte
...Goldsmith's eloquent and humane poem, with the faith' that sometime, somewhere, the universe will sing: " No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the Power that pities me I learn to pity them." CHAPTEE II MEMBEKS Name Almond, John Joseph " William... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 lehte
...draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. GEORGE ELIOT— MM mi the Floss. Bk. VII. Ch. I. 8 heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is GOLDSMITH — Hermit. St. 6. 7 La plaincte et la commiseration sent meslees a quelque estimation de... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 lehte
...To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still ; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will. "Then turn to-night, and freely share Whate'cr my cell bestows ; My rushy couch and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. "No flocks that... | |
 | 1875 - 478 lehte
...their natural repugnance to man, and disporting in the joyousness of natural freedom. Edwin says well, 'Taught by that Power that ' pities me, I learn to pity them.' But Angelina — alongside in the aforesaid punt, with a worm wriggling at the end of a line, with a perch... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1884 - 500 lehte
...thus obtained will form a poet's name : i. Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory. 2. No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the power that pities me, I learn to pity them. 3. Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers To deck her gay,... | |
 | Daniel A. Dombrowski - 1988 - 174 lehte
...alone appreciates every creaturely nuance. As Oliver Goldsmith expresses the issue in "The Hermit": No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the power that pities me, I learn to pity them. Yet without the least taint of shrillness, the Nobel... | |
 | S. R. Parchment - 1996 - 136 lehte
...imprisoned animals instinctively realizing their doom. Silently I pondered the words of Goldsmith: "No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the Power that pities me, I learn to pity them." THE JUST LAW OP COMPENSATION When animals have remained... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 lehte
...gives the bird's song its true relish."58 In The Hermit: A Ballad (1766) we find the following lines: No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn; Taught by the Power that pities me, I learn to pity them.59 It was, however, in his The Citizen of the World... | |
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