Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt 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 ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art. American Agriculturist - Page 631846Full view - About this book
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 pages
...hair, with sleet-like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheek Fringed with a oeard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy...and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, ' But urged by storms along its slippery way. Cowper's minor poems are full of beauties of the most... | |
| Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 pages
...scatter'd hair, with sleet-like ashes fiU'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheek Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those...and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way." Cowper's minor Poems are full of beauties ; and of beauties... | |
| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...scatter'd hah- with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leaffess branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms... | |
| Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet-like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed 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,... | |
| 1840 - 378 pages
...thy cheeks Fringed 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, But urged by storms along its slipp'ry way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded... | |
| 1840 - 368 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed 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 - 1841 - 240 pages
...th' inverted year, 120 Thy 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 125 A sliding car, indebted to no... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes flll'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forebead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to... | |
| 1843
...congealed upon thy_ lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of a<*c, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy...and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; / love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded... | |
| Charles F. Ellerman - 1843 - 650 pages
...wonderingly, and almost reverently, on the enormous goblin, which suddenly bowed its head — " Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of Age," and with a loud and appalling sound fell into a thousand fragments, scattering themselves in all directions.... | |
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