| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, niinM, sink 1 Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd berteath the furrow's weight, JAMBS HURDIS was born at Bishopstone, Sussex, in the year 1763. His father,... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd ! Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till hillows crsuh'd beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN. IALL hail ! inexorable lord ! At whose... | |
| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! DOUGLAS'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF. My name is Norval : on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flocks... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink ! E'en thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate That fate is thine—no distant date ; Stern ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,...beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom ! TO RUIN. L ALL hail! inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing word, The mightiest empires fall! Thy... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...mis'ry's brink, Till, wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink ! E'en thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom ! TO J. S**** SOME rhyme a neebor's name to lash ; Some rhyme (vain thought !) for needfu' cash : Some rhyme... | |
| Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1840 - 368 pages
...To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but heaven, He ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant...crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! » * " I have seldom met with an image more truly pastoral than that of the lark in the second stanza.... | |
| Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...Thy slender stem : jare tíiee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. IX. il. Ev'n thou who mourn'st not shown to man living till Í now send it to you....It forms the postulate, the axioms, the definition cnish'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom ! ! it's no thy neebor sweet, bonnie lark, companion... | |
| Charles Lanman - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 272 pages
...misery's brink ; Till, wrecked of every stay but Heaven, He, ruined, sink. " E'en thou, who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine, — no distant...ploughshare, drives elate, Full on thy bloom ; Till crushed beneath the furrows' weight, Shall be thy doom." Here we come at last to my favorite retreat.... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...misery's brink, Till, wrenched of every stay but heaven, He, ruined, sink 1 Even thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine— no distant...ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom 1 i Walls must. "1 Shelter. " Stone 0 Dry and... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That Juts is thine — no distant date ; Stem Ruin's plough-share drives, elate Full on thy bloom,...beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy doom !« TO A MOUSE, Ou tomín; her up In her Nest, with the Попки, November, 1783. WEE, sleekit," cow'rin',"... | |
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