 She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive...  The Fifth Progressive Reader - Side 274af Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1792 - 112 sider
...ftrip the brook with mantling crefTes fpread , To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn , To feek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmlefs train, The fad hiftorian of the penfive plain. NEAR yonder copfe where once the garden fmil'd,... | |
 | 1795 - 432 sider
...widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends besides the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mant'ling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn, She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | 1800 - 322 sider
...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 sider
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 sider
...widow 'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn.; She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 sider
...of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 sider
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | 1806 - 330 sider
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sider
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 sider
...site of his school-house; and * Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, *' The wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches * * near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses)... | |
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