 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 176 pages
...or cunning driv'n To Mis'ryVbrink, Till wrench'd o'f -ev'ry stay but Heaven, He, ruin'd, sink'! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine—' no distant date: 'Stern ruin's plough-share drives elate Full on thy bloom, Till, crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...v'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To misery's brink, Till wrench'd of every stay but Heav'n^ Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom. Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 440 pages
...driven To misery's brink, Till, wrenched of every stay but heaven, He ruined sink. Ev'n thou who mown'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine No distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To misery's brink, Till wrench'd of every stay but Heav'n, Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom. Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...pride or cunning driv'n To Mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heaven, He ruin'd MDK ! E'en thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date: Stern ruin's plough-share drives elate Full on thy bloom ; Till, crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, • Shall... | |
 | 1818 - 400 pages
...cunning driv'n To misery's brink; Till, wrenched of every stay but Heatv'n, He, ruined, sink. Ev'n thou, who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date : Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom ; Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pages
...cunning driv'n, To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink ! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, TO SUIN. I. All. hail ! inexorable lord ! At whose destruction-breathing... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heavn, He, ruin'd, sink! Ev'n thou who mourn'st the Daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date ; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the approach of morn." Ibid. " Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine — no distant date ; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrow's weight, Shall be thy... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 354 pages
...or cunning driven To Misery's brink, Till, wrench'd of every stay but Heaven, He ruined sink. Ev'n thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, That fate is thine No distant date ; Stern Ruin's plough-share drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crush'd beneath the furrows' weight Shall be thy... | |
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Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is... 
