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" Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 42
1903
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The National Review, Volume 8

1859 - 598 pages
...been described by the poet himself, in lines to whose force and minuteness nothing can be added : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grow-n...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, . Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted...
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Poems and Essays, Volume 2

William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...been described by the poet himself, in lines to whose force and minuteness nothing can be added : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 47

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 826 pages
...description of the district in the poem which is supposed to represent his native town, Aldeburgh : — Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds that every art and care defy Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye....
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Poems and Essays, Volume 2

William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 pages
...and gloomy house with overhanging upper story, which has since thus perished, the poet was born. " Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Eeign o'er the laud, and rob the blighted...
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The East coast of England, from the Thames to the Tweed

Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 pages
...marshy shore as far as the estuary of the river Aide, but there begins to be covered with shingle. " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears, Bank weeds that every art and care defy Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye; With mingled...
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The East coast of England, from the Thames to the Tweed

Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1861 - 452 pages
...marshy shore as far as the estuary of the river Aide, but there begins to be covered with shingle. " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears, Eank weeds that every art and care defy Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye; With mingled...
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The popular history of England, Volume 7

Charles Knight - 1861 - 654 pages
...slovenly cultivation had not called forth the resources of art to aid the churlishness of nature : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its witherVl ears ; linnk weeds, thut every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, aud reb the blighted...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...The Village was copied, in every touch, from the scene of the poet's nativity and boyish days : — ' Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...turf that warms the neighbouring poor; From thence m length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered eara ; Rank weeds, that...
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George Crabbe: a Biography

Edward Clodd - 1865 - 86 pages
...the Suffolk sea-coast, will see, in reading " The Village," where Crabbe copied this picture from : " Lo ! -where the heath, with withering brake grown...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither' d ears ; Bank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted...
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George Crabbe: a Biography

Edward Clodd - 1865 - 92 pages
...the Suffolk sea-coast, will see, in reading " The Village," where Crabbe copied this picture from: " Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that wanns the neighbouring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves...
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