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" 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 27
1841
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1810 - 384 pages
...rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And, fledg'd with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in...seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they n ait Their wonted fodder; not like hung'ring man, Fretful if unsupplied ; but silent, meek,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And, fledg'd with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle moum in corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder; not like hung'riug man, Fretful if unsupplied ; but silent, meek,...
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The Task: A Poem in Six Books

William Cowper - 1811 - 228 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, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and...
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Poems

William Cowper, M'Nicoll - 1815 - 728 pages
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1815 - 338 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, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and...
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The Task

William Cowper - 1817 - 248 pages
...Prepost'rous sight ! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath ti'i dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass,...shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And, fledg'd with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 81

1857 - 878 pages
...Illustrated by BIRKJBT POSTED. Nisbet & Co. dreary silent reality, than the illustration at page 171, where "The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In urnecumbent sadness." The numb apathy of cold, and shrinking huddle of the animals, the long white...
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Poems,

William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pages
...without the man. The verdure of the plain lies huried deep Beneath the dazzling dcluge ; and the hents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late...unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in hright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superh. The cattle mourn in corners where the...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge ; and the bents, And coai^er grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly...Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In uurecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder : not like hungering man, Fretful if unsupplied...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1819 - 306 pages
...legs without the man; The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deludge ; nn.l the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the...shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And, fledgM with icy feathers, not superb. The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and...
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