 Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore and darken all the strand. Contented toil and hospitable care, And kind connubial tenderness are there; And piety, with wishes placed above, And steady loyalty and faithful love.  Studies from the English Poets - Page 502by George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 519 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, That, idly waiting, flaps with ev'ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the...Tenderness are there ; And Piety, with wishes placed abov«, And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...spread a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...spread a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand : Contented toil,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...land. Dowu where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail , That idly waiting flaps with every gale , Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the...connubial tenderness , are there ; And piety with wishes plac'd above , And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid ,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...the land, Down where yon anchoring vessels spreads the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the...tenderness are there; And piety with wishes placed above, • And steady loyalty, and faithful love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, .'t'Il first... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...spread a ruin round. E:en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. Contented toil,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, 40 That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the...Tenderness, are there ; And Piety, with wishes placed above, And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love. And thou, sweet Poetry ! thou loveliest maid, Still first to... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, . And half the business of destruction done; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...the sail, That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand Contented toil,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...the land. Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail That idly waiting flaps with cvc ry gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the...Tenderness, are there , And Piety with wishes placed above, And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love. And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...spread a ruin round. E'en now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; E'en now, methinks, as pondering here I stand, I see the...the sail That idly waiting flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band, Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand : Contented toil,... | |
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