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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 Poets of the Church: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Hymn-writers ...

Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1884 - 744 pages
...was the place where he was trained. In his poem, " The Village," he alludes to it as follows : "Lo I where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered...
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The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, Volume 3

Postal Microscopical Society - 1884 - 364 pages
...thistles shall it bring forth to thee," has clung to the earth throughout all ages. " Rank weeds, which every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; O'er the young shoot the charlock throws a shade, And clasping tares cling round the sickly blade."...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 pages
...— Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volumes 1-2

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pages
...glimpse of the unpromising scene of his nativity, is a specimen of his rough energy of description : *Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er Lends the light turf lhat warms the neighboring poor; Prom thence u length of burning sand appears Where the thin harvest...
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The Canterbury Poets

George Crabbe - 1888 - 294 pages
...shed? Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighb'ring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd...
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England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the ..., Volume 2

William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 428 pages
...scenery round his own home, Aldeburgh, on the coast, George Crabbe speaks in the following terms :— 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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A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools

James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pages
...following description of the open commons and sterile farms near Aldborough will serve to show : — " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...neighbouring poor ; From thence a length of burning sands appears Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care...
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Manual of English Literature: Era of Expansion, 1750-1850. Its ...

John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 pages
...widely stray," as Virgil and his imitators did. He gives an often-quoted picture of the Suffolk coast, " Where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor," and " Poppies nodding mock the hope of toil." He describes the poverty-stricken village with its "...
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Selections from the British Satirists: With an Introductory Essay by Cecil ...

Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pages
...? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way ? . . . 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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Some Aspects of English Life as Seen in the Works of George Crabbe and ...

Edna Chynoweth - 1897 - 292 pages
...opening lines of the Village. Lo where the earth, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light fcnrfK that warms the neighbouring (poor; From thence a length...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither 'd ears; And weeds that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the bli^ited rye;...
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