 ... time hath made thee what thou art— a cave For owls to roost in. Once thy spreading boughs O'erhung the champaign ; and the numerous flocks That grazed it stood beneath that ample cope Uncrowded, yet safe shelter'd from the storm.  The Augustan review - Pagina 238Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 264 pagina’s
...* " Twins :" Castor and Pollux. No flock frequents thee now. Thou hast outlived Thy popularity, and art become (Unless verse rescue thee awhile) a thing Forgotten as the foliage of thy youth. While thus through all the stages thou hast push'd Of treeship — first a seedling, hid in grass;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 pagina’s
...safe-shelter'd from the storm. No flock frequents thee now. Thou hast outlived The popularity, and art become (Unless verse rescue thee awhile) a thing Forgotten, as the foliage of thy youth. While thus through all the stages thou hast push'd Of treeship — first a seedling, hid in grass ;... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pagina’s
...safe-sheltered from the storm ! No Hock frequents thee now ; thou hast outliv'd Thy popularity ; and art become (Unless verse rescue thee awhile) a thing Forgotten, as the foliage ol thy youth! ' One man alone, the lather of us all, Drew not his life from woman; never gaz'd, With... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 304 pagina’s
...safe sheltered from the storm. 55 No flock frequents thee now. Thou hast outlived Thy popularity, and art become (Unless verse rescue thee awhile) a thing Forgotten, as the foliage of thy youth. While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed 60 Of treeship — first a seedling, hid in grass... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 320 pagina’s
...the scene, I will perform Myself the oracle, and will discourse In my own ear such matter as I may. One man alone, the father of us all, Drew not his life from woman; never gazed, 145 With mute unconsciousness of what he saw, On all around him; learned not by degrees, Nor... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pagina’s
...safe sheltered from the storm. 55 No flock frequents thee now. Thou hast outlived Thy popularity, and art become (Unless verse rescue thee awhile) a thing Forgotten, as the foliage of thy youth. While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed 60 Of treeship— first a seedling, hid in grass... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pagina’s
...the scene, I will perform Myself the oracle, and will discourse In my own ear such matter as I may. One man alone, the father of us all, Drew not his life from woman; never gazed, 145 With mute unconsciousness of what he saw, On all around him; learned not by degrees, Nor... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 292 pagina’s
...safe-sheltered from the storm. No flock frequents thee now. Thou hast outlived Thy popularity, and art become (Unless verse rescue thee awhile) a thing Forgotten, as the foliage of thy youth. While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed Of treeship, — first a seedling, hid in grass... | |
 | 1876 - 552 pagina’s
...the scene, I will perform, Myself the oracle, and will discourse In my own ear such matter as I may. One man alone, the father of us all, Drew not his life from woman ; never gazed, With mute unconsciousness of what he saw, On all around him; learned not by degrees, Nor owed... | |
 | William Cowper - 1877 - 104 pagina’s
...safe sheltered from the storm. No flock frequents thee now. Thou hast outlived Thy popularity, and art become (Unless verse rescue thee awhile) a thing Forgotten, as the foliage of thy youth. While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed Of treeship — first a seedling hid in grass ;... | |
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