 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...exulting. At his waist A girdle of half-wither'd shrubs he shows, And at his feet the baffled billows die. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd. And dang'rous to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, ,Yields no unpleasing... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...exulting. At his waist A girdle of half-wither'd shrubs he shows,. And at his feet the baffled billows die. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dang'rous'to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...his w.'.ist A girdle of half-wither'd shrubs he shows, And at his feet the baffled billows die. 525 The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform 'd, And dangerous to the touch, has yet its bloom And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...girdle of half- withered shrubs he shows, ' '''' ' And at his feet the baffled billows die. '• ' t' The common, overgrown with- fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that shapeless and deformed And dangerous to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself With orriarinents of gold,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...exulting. At his waist A girdle of half-wither'd shrubs he shows, And at Ins feet the baffled billows die. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dang'rous to the touch, has yet it's bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...exulting. At his waist A girdle of half-wither'd shrubs he shows, And at his feet the baffled billows die. The common overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dang'rous to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...of humanity in general, while her virtues are made known to excite universal imitation. CRAZY KATE. THE common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dang'rous to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...exulting. At his waist A girdle of half-wit her'd shrubs he shows, And at bis feet the baffled hillows die. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dang'rous to the touch, has yet it's bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...exulting. At his waist A girdle of half-wither'd shrubs he shows, And at his feet the baffled billows die. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dang'rous to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold, Yields no unpleasing... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...of the freshness and delight of a rural walk, even when he leads as to the wasteful common, which " overgrown with fern, and rough " With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, " And dang'rous to the touch, has yet its bloom, " And decks itself with ornaments of gold, " Yields no unpleasing... | |
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The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse, that, shapeless and deform'd, And dang'rous to the touch, has yet its bloom, And decks itself with ornaments of gold... 
