 | 1807 - 532 pages
...Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour, and bow'd down by time,. Feel you the barren...myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales yonr weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round...mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath, with witheringbrake grown o'er Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor; From thence a length... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 274 pages
...O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round...Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, OK glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er Lends... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 276 pages
...Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 302 pages
...JVor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can Poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 pages
...Nor you, ye poor, of letter' d scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain; O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme I Can poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed? Can their... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 430 pages
...Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pages
...Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest long is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time. Feel you the barren...o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? This plea, we would remark by the way, is more plausible than satisfactory. By associating pleasing... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1832 - 152 pages
...For you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour, and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of rhyme ? Can poets soothe you when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...Nor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour, and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren...with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo! where the heath,with withering brake growno'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouringpoor ; From thence... | |
| |
... Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the cot, As Truth... 
