 And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share...  Plantagenet - Page 71by Plantagenet - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...humble band ; And while he siuks, without one arm to save, The country blooms—a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, tlieu, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure...of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limit* stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless Gelds the sons of wealth... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms. ...a garden and a grave. ' Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous prid« ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...surprise j The mournful peasant leads his humble baud ; -Inil, while he sinks without one arm to save, Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave. C2 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...nose : the trailing cloud Streams far behind him, scenting all the air. COWBER. THE DESERTED FEMALE. WHERE, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade. Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, lie drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...while he sinks, without one arm to save, Ihe country blooms— a garden and a grave, Where then, aht where shall poverty reside* To 'scape the pressure...contiguous pride \ If to some common's fenceless limits «tray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms—a garden and a grave. Where, then, ah! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride? If, to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade—- Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
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