 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln...  The Harvard Classics - Page 771909Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1874 - 504 pages
...belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...belongs ! What recks" it them? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw,...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothingsaid ; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel2 pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed :3 But that two-handed engine4 at the door iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more."... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up and arc not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mint they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread;...at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no morel ' " As if a strain so stern and polemical had scared away the ordinary pastoral muses, the mourning... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; Tho hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul coutagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw...Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alphens, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return, blaze, PARNASSUS. And call the vales,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grale siter Johnson sed : But that Iwo-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1877 - 732 pages
...belongs ! What recks it them ' What need they ! They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smitea no more." Here he nest wrote his treatise, Of Practical Episcopacy, in defence of the Smectymneans,... | |
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