 | 1800 - 322 strani
...pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessels spread the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale,...loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,. Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit in these degen'rate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 strani
...leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass...loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degen'rate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 strani
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, • I see the rural virtues leave the...loyalty, and faithful love. / And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit, in these degen'rate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 strani
...a ruin round. " E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...connubial tenderness, are there ; And piety, with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty, and faithful love : And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 strani
...leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass...loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ! Unfit, in these degen'rate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 strani
...begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, mi-thinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I sec the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring...Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the sliore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil, and hospitable care, % And kind connubial tenderness,... | |
 | 1806 - 330 strani
...pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anch'ring vessels spread the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale,...band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. 100 Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there ; And piety with wishes... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 strani
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land....loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degen'rate times... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 strani
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction clone ; Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land....loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degenerate times... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 strani
...devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Ev'n now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land....loyalty, and faithful love. And thoU, sweet poetry! thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade ; Unfit in these degen'rate times... | |
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I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand. Contented toil and hospitable care,... 
