 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
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 166 pages
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, Prepost'rous sight ! the legs without the man. 20 The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, 25 And, fledg'd with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pages
...for their chief subsistence they must depend upon the hay and other provisions of the farm-yard — The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrify'd to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder, not like hung'ring... | |
 | William Cowper - 1845 - 394 pages
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, Preposterous sight! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...bents And coarser grass up-spearing o'er the rest, 119 Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And, fledged with... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...fully grown, Nurse the younglings as their own. Fawhei. The Odei of Anacreon, ode 33. Thr Swallow. The bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the...now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, bndfflfdg'd with icy feathers, nod superb. Cowper. The Tatk, book v. FLEE, v. ~\ AS fle-an, (see to... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 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...dazzling deluge ; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspeating o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...Preposterous sight ! the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the daazling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing...seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder; not like hungering man, Fretful if unsupplied: but silent, meek,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster'd wall, Preposterous sight ; the legs without the man. The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...dazzling deluge ; and the bents And coarser grass, unspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel... | |
 | Sketches - 1848 - 422 pages
...cutting of a CUTTING AND TRUSSING HAY. 10O hay-rick to supply the wants of hungering animals in winter. " The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbeDt sadness. There they wait Their wonted fodder ; not like hungering man, Fretful, if unsupplied... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...approach The cottage, walk along the plaster' d wall, Preposterous sight ! the legs without the man. 20 The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 508 pages
...lies buried deep the da 7/1 ing deluge: and the bents. THE TASK. 255 And coarser grass, unspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine...bright apparel clad, And, fledged with icy feathers, not superb. The cattle mourn in corners, where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep... | |
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