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" 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 with wind... "
The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ... - Page 20
1852
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The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions ..., Volume 1

John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd ought els the least That to the faithfull Herdmans art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped...inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed, But that two-handed engine at the...
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Paradise Lost

John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped...inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks" it them? What need they ? They are sped...inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothingsaid ; But that two-handed engine at the...
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King and Commonwealth, a history of the Great rebellion [by B.M. Gardiner ...

Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 pages
...hold A sheephook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art helongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw* Daily devours apace, and nothing said." While Laud thus...
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Parnassus

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...bold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they ? They are sped...But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, lint inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...
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King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I. and the Great Rebellion

Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 pages
...hold A sheephook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besida what the grim wolf with privy paw* Daily devours apace, and nothing said." While Laud thus...
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Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best Monor Poems ...

1876 - 508 pages
...hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? what need they ? they are sped...straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace,...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - 1877 - 732 pages
...hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ' What need they ! They are sped...inwardly, and foul contagion spread,'; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at...
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Macleod's First text-book of elocution

Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped...straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what...
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