 O'er his white locks and bury them in snow, When, roused by rage and muttering in the morn. He mends the broken hedge with icy thorn : — " Why do I live, when I desire to be " At once from life and life's long labour free ? " Like leaves in spring,...  Poems - Page 10by George Crabbe - 1808 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1785 - 652 pages
...forrows of a flow decay ; I, like yon wither'd leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the froft and fhivering in the wind ; There it abides till younger buds come on, As I, now all my fellow fwains are gone ; Then, from the rif:ng generation thruft, It falls, like me, unnotic'dj to the duft.... | |
 | 1788 - 404 pages
...forrows of a flow decay; I, like yon wither'd leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the froft and fhivcring in the wind ; There it abides till younger buds come on, As 1, now all my fellow (wains are gone ; Then, from the riling generation thrull, It falls, like me,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 632 pages
...forrows of a flow decay j I, like yon witlier'd leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the fro It and ihivering in the wind ; There it abides till younger buds come on, As I, now all my fellow (wains are gone; 'Ihcn, from the riling generation tluull, It falls, like me, unnotic'd. to the dull.... | |
 | 1800 - 608 pages
...forrowsof a flow decay ; I, like yon wither'd Itaf. remain behind, Nipt by the froli and fhivering in the wind ; There it abides till younger buds come on, As I, now all my fellow fwains an- gone ; Then, from theriííng generation thruft, It falls, like me, unnotic'd. to the duft.... | |
 | 1800 - 632 pages
...forrows of a flow decay ; I, like yon wither'd leaf, remain behind, Nipt by the froft and fhivering in the wind ; There it abides till younger buds come on, As I, 'now all my fellow fwains are gone; Then, from therifing generation thruft, It falls, like me, unnotic'd, to the duft.... | |
 | 1807 - 532 pages
...icy thorn. " Why do I live, when I desire to be " At once from life and life's long labours free ? " Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, "...wither'd leaf, remain behind, " Nipt by the frost, and shjvering in the wjnd; a There it abides till younger buds come on, " As I, now all my fellow swains... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 pages
...icy thorn. " Why do I live, when I desire to be " At once from life and life's long labour free ? " Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, "...wind ; *' There it abides till younger buds come on, (t As I, now all my fellow swains are gone ; •" Then, from the rising generation thrust, " It falls,... | |
 | 1808 - 590 pages
...¡IU to hide, In tinsel trappings of poetic pride ? At once from life and life's long labour free ? " Like leaves in spring, the young are blown away, " Without the sorrows of a slow decay ', " 1, like yon with^r'd leaf, 'regain behind, " Nipt by the frost and shivering in the wind ; " There... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 pages
...— " Why do I live, when I desire to be , " At once from Life and Life's long labour free ? " Lake leaves in Spring, the young are blown away, " Without the sorrows of a slow decay ; " I, like yon wither1 d leaf, remain behind, " Nipt by the frost and shivering in the wind; " There it abides til}... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 pages
...thorn : — " Why do I live, when I desire to be " At once from Life and Life's long labour free? " Like leaves in Spring, the young are blown away, "...decay ; " I, like yon wither'd leaf, remain behind, " Nipp'd by the frost and shivering in the wind ; " There it abides till younger buds come on, " As... | |
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