| Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 200 pages
...thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their... | |
| Laurence Oliphant - 1859 - 762 pages
...and mounds of brickbats alone remained to attest its once populous character. " Sunk are thy bowers, in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land." The... | |
| Laurence Oliphant - 1859 - 586 pages
...and mounds of brickbats alone remained to attest its once populous character. " Sunk arc thy bowers, in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, for away thy children leave the land." The... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...following line, and again line 35. thy charms." 45. Dacrt — Used here for deserled. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, | And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; | And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 50 Far, far away thy children leave the land.... | |
| Laurence Oliphant - 1860 - 584 pages
...and mounds of brickbats alone remained to attest its once populous character. " Sunk are thy bowers, in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, sin-inking from the spoiler's hand, Fur, far away thy children leavo the land." The... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares... | |
| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill... | |
| Helen (aunt, pseud.) - 1862 - 164 pages
...evil. •I•ll nt <% -v « is i<4 i * CHAPTER III. CHINESE CITIES AND TOWNS. ' Sunk are thy bowers, in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, While, trembling, shrinking, from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land." You... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill... | |
| 1863 - 392 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill... | |
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