 But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces 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...  Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Seite 8von Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1912 - 440 Seiten
...charms at first arrayed, 3072 Poems of Sentiment and Reflection But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While,...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 divide,... | |
 | 1912 - 414 Seiten
...luxury betrayed: In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While,...save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. THE DESERTED VILLAGE Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common... | |
 | 1916 - 792 Seiten
...rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land 299 de before, And reached that torrent's sounding shore,...Where Rome, the Empress of the world, Of yore her ea strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 Seiten
...rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces suqDrise; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land 299 ry bad strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 Seiten
...; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band, 300 And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed 305 If to the city sped — what waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 Seiten
...surprise; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band, 300 And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed 305 He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 Seiten
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land by luxury betrayed: In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas...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 divide,... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 Seiten
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed. But verging to decline, its splendors I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to...tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 Seiten
...impotence of dress, Thus fares the land by luxury betrayed : In Nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas...country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ahl where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 Seiten
...IWhile, scourged by famine from the smiling land (The mournful peasant leads his humble band, lAnd while he sinks, without one arm to save, {The country...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 divide,... | |
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