 I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat, that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from...  Poems - Side 330av William Cowper - 1812Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 sider
...seat that once lent me a shade ! The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels atford him a screen from the heat. And the scene where his melody charm 'd me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting... | |
 | Geoffrey Winthrop Young - 1905 - 140 sider
...faces. The Classic architect had no eye for placing a pipe, and his Doric columns are widely spaced and * " I must ere long lie as lowly as they with a stone at my head." W. COWPER. possible only for an Atlas to shin up. Spenser, it is true, rhapsodizes... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 sider
...grass behold they are laid, 8 And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade! The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him...screen from the heat; And the scene where his melody charmed me before 12 Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1908 - 476 sider
...laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade! The blackbird has fled to another retreat 10 Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat...hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, 15 With a' turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its- stead.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1908 - 632 sider
...retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no...With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, ' i ' Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. .... -- ~*w* ', *•" <i-* ** "Tis a sight to... | |
 | 1908 - 464 sider
...laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade ! The blackbird has fled to another retreat 10 Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat ; And the scene where his melody charm' d me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting... | |
 | Frances E. Bevan - 1909 - 104 sider
...moved by concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. 48. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him...screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before, Eesounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. 49. On a rock whose haughty brow... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 sider
...the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade ! The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him...screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting... | |
 | 1910 - 220 sider
...the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade ! The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him...before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. The change both my heart and my fancy employs ; I reflect on the frailty of man and his joys : Short-lived... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1912 - 508 sider
...grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade ! 20 The blackbird has fled to another retreat Where the hazels afford him...ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, 25 And I must erelong lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another... | |
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