| English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall! But the picture it presented in my youth exhibits it as true and vivid as ever. It is hung up in memory... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, , And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ! But the picture it presented in my youth exhibits it as true and vivid as ever. It is hung up in... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - Middle East - 1838 - 278 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking, from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land." Dark... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - Damascus - 1838 - 492 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking, from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land." Dark... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...bittern.' Gold. An. Nat. vi. p. 2. And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, tar away thy children leave the land. ^Illfares... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...thy desert walk the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries : Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. HI... | |
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