The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Página 44de Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 156 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 páginas
...surprise ; While scourg'd by famirie from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous prid« ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade,... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...surprise j The mournful peasant leads his humble baud ; -Inil, while he sinks without one arm to save, Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is deny'd. The country blooms—a garden, and a grave. There the black gibbet... | |
| 1814 - 310 páginas
...surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave. C2 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 páginas
...nose : the trailing cloud Streams far behind him, scenting all the air. COWBER. THE DESERTED FEMALE. WHERE, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And ev'n the hare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 páginas
...surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray' d, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| 1816 - 612 páginas
...surprise; While, seourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his bamble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden arid a grave !" Who, that has contemplated the decline of empirei,— that has seen in the page of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 páginas
...surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, lie drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 páginas
...while he sinks, without one arm to save, Ihe country blooms— a garden and a grave, Where then, aht where shall poverty reside* To 'scape the pressure...contiguous pride \ If to some common's fenceless limits «tray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 páginas
...peasant leads bis humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms—a garden and a grave. Where, then, ah! where shall poverty...contiguous pride? If, to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade—- Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 páginas
...surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there? To see profusion that he... | |
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