 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...poor man's lot very graphically, as in the following lines — so simple, yet so beautiful : — " Toiling in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter...crumping snows, Stamps in vain to warm his toes." And again : " Though all's vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm ; Friendship none its... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1820 - 748 pages
...want assails ? Modest shame the pain conceals: No one knows but he who feels.'— " And again — ^ ' Toiling in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter...crumping snows Stamps, in vain, to warm his toes'— he utters 'no idly-feign'd poetic pains:' it is a picture of what he has constantly witnessed and felt.... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 648 pages
...if Ids, Needy labor dithering stands, Beats and blows his numbing handi j And upon the crumping mows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. Leaves are fled that...resist a summer shower; And the wind so piercing blows, Wiunowing small the drifting snows, The summer shade of loaded bough Would vainly boast a shelter now... | |
 | Literature - 1864 - 640 pages
...one of his complainte : — " Toiling in the naked fields Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor dithering stands, Beats and blows his numbing hands,...the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes." A delicate poetic organization earning a maximum wage of nine shillings a week, on condition of going... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Baker - English language - 1854 - 478 pages
...give such a sound as ice or frozen snow does when it yields to the feet." So used by us. See CRAUNCH. And upon the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. CLARE'S " Rural Life," &c. p. 47. The frozen snow crumps loud beneath his tread. CLARE's MS. Poems.... | |
 | John Clare, John Law Cherry - 1873 - 388 pages
...their Doric strength and simplicity, and the vivid realism of the scene which they depict : — • Toiling in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter...piercing blows, Winnowing small the drifting snows, Clare used at first, without hesitation, the provincialisms of his native county, but afterwards, as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...TOIT.INO in the naked fields, Wiie re no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor dithering stands. Boats and blows his numbing hands, And upon the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. Though all's in vain to keep him warm. Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...FRANCES S. OSCOOO. THE LABORER. TOILING in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor dithering stands, Beats and blows his numbing hands,...the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. Though all 's in vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...SARGENT OSGOOD. THE LABORER. TOILING in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor Though all 's in vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...РДВКЕН. THE LABORER. TOILIXO in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor The shout of them that feast ; And they who, with...Leader, Have conquer'd in the fight, For ever and for ev Though all's in vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
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s in vain to keep him warm. Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend, Constant health his only friend, Granting leave to live in pain, Giving strength to toil in vain. 
