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" She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread... "
Essays, Poems and Plays: With a Preface - Page 172
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 399 pages
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 pages
...ftrip the brook with mantling crefTes fpread , To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn , To feek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmlefs train, The fad hiftorian of the penfive plain. NEAR yonder copfe where once the garden fmil'd,...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left, of all the harmless...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...of life is fled, All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To...the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the...
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An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct ...

Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 pages
...village-master, ' and the site of his school-house; and * Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, *' The wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches * * near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses)...
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The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ..., Volume 39

1808 - 694 pages
...Reflect, and think ho* many pine in want and wretchedness '. — Think how many > - < ' Fore'd in ajce, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick the wint'ry fagot from the thorn, To seek the nightly shed, and weep till monr!* As I pursued my walk...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...of life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly brnd beside the plashy spring ; j $ x8 } _ f | . } ] Y M S G ? O I3 7< _ r 7 Z{ G T j ؄ .VܴɃ ڞR E + @2 stck her nightly shed, and vreep till morn , She or.ly left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To...spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, And seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...flush of life is fled: All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bend beside the plasby spring; She, wretched matron! forc'd in age for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pitk her wintYy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mum; She only left,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...of life is, fled : All hut yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To...the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mom : She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...: To which is Prefixed an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...life is fled, ' C All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, Thet feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantlhig cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...
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