| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...have we seen him, at the peep of dawn, " Brushing, with hasty steps, the dews away, " To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, " That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, " His listless length at noontide would he stretch, " And pore upon the brook... | |
| 1814 - 310 páginas
...have we seen him at the peep of dawn. " Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, " To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech " That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, " His listless length at noontide would he stretch, " And pore upon the brook... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 páginas
...Haply fome hoary.headed fwain may fay, " Oft have we feen him at the peep of dawn, Brufhing, with hafty fteps, the dews away, To meet the fun upon the upland...foot of yonder nodding beech, .That wreathes its old iantaftic roots fo high, His liftlefs length at noon.tide would he ilretch, And pour upon the brook... | |
| Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 páginas
...147: " On airy uplands met the piercing gale.' Compare also Lucan, Phars. iii. 232. VOL. I. • B. ; There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
..." Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn, " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 páginas
..." Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook... | |
| Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...say, 'Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 'There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook... | |
| George Hughes - 1997 - 274 páginas
...fame unknown" began to be grafted onto descriptions of landscapes. Of Gray's youth it was said that "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech/ That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high,/ His listless length at noontide would he stretch,/ And pore upon the brook... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - 386 páginas
...say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
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