 Than those of age, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, 1 love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art!  The National Review - Page 62edited by - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 pages
...year ! Thy 8catter'd hair, -with sleet-like ashes Cll'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheek Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless hranch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | 1830 - 188 pages
...tcatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal d upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds; A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | Abraham Thompson Lowe - 1831 - 232 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes filFd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A eliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleetlike ashes fillM, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fring'd by a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels.... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...circuit, and is still at home. 0 winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips,...wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, 1 love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art! Thou hold'st the sun A prisoner... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pages
...lips, thy cheek Frrnged with a beard made wnite with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy...wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way. Cowper's minor poems are full of beauties of the most varied kind; and for pathos and feeling, his... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Friug'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...his address to Winter ? " O Winter ! ruler of the inverted year ! Thy scattered hair with sleet-like ashes filled. Thy breath congealed upon thy lips,...Than those of age, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A lifeless branch tljy sceptre, and thy throne A gliding car, indebted to no wheels, Hut urged by storms... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pages
...trembling heart. 753. Oh winter ! ruler of the inverted year ! Thy scattered hair with sleet, like ashes, filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips,...white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
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