 The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb....  The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian - Page 271841Full view - About this book
 | 1916 - 792 pages
...plastered wall, Preposterous sight ! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep 21 he Chief 25 And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. •The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep 21 Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents 1 25 And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep 21 Beneath the dazzling deluge ; and the bents 1 And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late...now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, 25 And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them,... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 518 pages
...such faithful realistic description, not easy to parallel elsewhere, as we find in the following : The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens...seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder ; not like hungering man, Fretful if unsupplied ; but silent, meek,... | |
 | George Lacey May - 1920 - 242 pages
...sleepy cattle, of a labourer cutting hay from a stack, of a playful dog, of a woodman smoking his pipe ! The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half-petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder ; not like hungering... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep 21 Beneath the dazzling deluge ; and the bents l And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late...now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, 25 And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them,... | |
 | 1928 - 432 pages
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, Prepost'rous sight! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...shine Conspicuous, and, in bright apparel clad And fledg'd with icy feathers, not superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and... | |
 | David Cecil - 1932 - 28 pages
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 | William Cowper - 1933 - 200 pages
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