 O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn. He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : — " Why do I live, when I desire to be " At once from life and life's long labour free ? " Like leaves in spring,...  Poems - Сторінка 10автори: George Crabbe - 1808 - 235 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1849 - 346 стор.
...— CHAPTER XXIX. Why do I live, when I desire to be At once from life and life's long labour free? Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, Without the sorrows of a slow decay: I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the frost, and shivering in the wind. CKABBE. IN the chamber... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1852 - 560 стор.
...icy thorn :— " Why do I live, when I desire to be At once from life and life's long labour free ? Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, Without...decay ; I, like yon wither'd leaf, remain behind, Nipp'd by the frost, and shivering in- the wind ; There it abides till younger buds come on, As I,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 стор.
...PAUPER LABORER. ' Why do I live, when I desire to be At once from life and life's long labor free? Like leaves in Spring, the young are blown away, Without the sorrows of a slow decay ; I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the frost, and shivering in the wind ; There it abides till younger... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 стор.
...leaves in Spring, the young are blown away, Without the sorrows of a slow decay ; I, like yon withered Q abide.« till younger buds come on, As I, now all my fellow-swains arc gone ; Then, from the rising... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 стор.
...better, and, as it were, more divinely. Essay on " Youth and Age." — LORD BACON. YOUTH. Death in Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, Without the sorrows of a slow decay ; I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the frost, and shivering in the wind. The Village, Book I.—... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 528 стор.
...with icy thorn. ' Why do I live, when I desire to be At once from life and life's long labour free ? Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, Without the sorrows of a slow decay ; I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the frost, and shivering in the wind : There it abides till younger... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 266 стор.
...with icy thorn. ' Why do I live, when I desire to be At once from life and life's long labour free ? Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, Without the sorrows of a slow decay ; I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the frost, and shivering in the wind : There it abides till younger... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 стор.
...with icy thorn. " Why do I live, when I desire to be At once from life and life's long labour free ? Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away. Without the sorrows of a slow decay; I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the frost, and shivering in the wind: There it abides till younger... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 568 стор.
...icy thorn : — " Why do I live, when I desire to be At once from life and life's long labour free? Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away. Without...shivering in the wind; There it abides till younger bnds come on, As I, now all my fellow-swains are gone; Then, from the rising generation thrust, It... | |
 | Emma Raymond Pitman - 1883 - 518 стор.
...blown away, Without the sorrows of a alow decay : I, like yon withered leaf, remain behind, Nipped by the frost, and shivering in the wind ; There it...abides till younger buds come on ; As I, now all my fellow-swains are gone ; Then from the rising generation thrust, It falls like me, unnoticed to the... | |
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