Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war... Littell's Living Age - Seite 4001874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 Seiten
...the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, [poor ; Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Bank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye : There thistles... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 Seiten
...with withering brake grown o'er, [poor ; Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring From thenee with a woman's neatness, breeding else Contagion, and disseminating death. Disch ; Eank weeds, that every art and eare defy, Heign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye : There thistles... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1856 - 794 Seiten
...heath, with with' ring brake grown 0,'er, [poor ; Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring From thence a length of burning sand appears. Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; There thistles stretch their prickly arms afir, And to the ragged infant threaten war... | |
| 1859 - 584 Seiten
...described by the poet himself, in lines to whose force and minuteness nothing can be added : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 826 Seiten
...description of the district in the poem which is supposed to represent his native town, Aldeburgh : — Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds that every art and care defy Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye.... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 Seiten
...described by the poet himself, in lines to whose force and minuteness nothing can be added : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 Seiten
...gloomy house with overhanging upper story, which has since thus perished, the poet was born. " Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Eeign o'er the laud, and rob the blighted... | |
| Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 Seiten
...shore as far as the estuary of the river Aide, but there begins to be covered with shingle. " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears, Bank weeds that every art and care defy Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye; With mingled... | |
| Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 Seiten
...shore as far as the estuary of the river Aide, but there begins to be covered with shingle. " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears, Eank weeds that every art and care defy Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye; With mingled... | |
| Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 Seiten
...slovenly cultivation had not called forth the resources of art to aid the churlishness of nature : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Bank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
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