Wit's sour delights, With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scattered lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. Watership Down: A Novel - Page 7by Richard Adams - 2009 - 496 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe,...Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow He did nor stay nor go : Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl Upon his soul ; And clouds of crying... | |
| Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe,...Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow He did nor stay nor go: Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl Upon his soul ; And clouds of crying... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...scattered lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woo, Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow He did not stay nor go : Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl Upon his soul ; And clouds of crying witnesses without... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1871 - 418 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scattor'd lay, while he his eys did pour Upon a flowr. 2. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, lie did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts— like sad ecclipses — scowl... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts — like sad eclipses — scowl... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts—like sad eclipses—scowl Upon... | |
| Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...snares of pleasure, Yet his dear treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts — like sad eclipses — scowl... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - Hymns, English - 1889 - 394 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome Statesman * hung with weights and woe,...midnight-fog, moved there so slow, He did not stay, nor go : Condemning thoughts— like sad eclipses — scowl Upon his soul, And clouds of crying •witnesses... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - Christian poetry, English - 1889 - 394 pages
...snares of pleasure ; Yet his dear treasure All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flower. The darksome Statesman ' hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, moved there so slow, Me did not stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts — like sad eclipses — scowl Upon his soul, And clouds... | |
| Henry Vaughan - Religious poetry - 1891 - 328 pages
...of pleasure, Yet his dear Treasure, All scatter'd lay, while he his eyes did pour Upon a flowr. 2. The darksome Statesman, hung with weights and woe, Like a thick midnight-fog, mov'd there so slow, He did nor stay, nor go ; Condemning thoughts (like sad Ecclipses) scowl Upon... | |
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