 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?  Poetical Works - Stran 46avtor: Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 strani
...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 must... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 strani
...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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