 When now the young are rear'd, and when the old, Lost to the tie, grow negligent and cold — Far to the left he saw the huts of men, Half hid in mist, that hung upon the fen ; Before him swallows, gathering for the sea, Took their short flights, and...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 391903Full view - About this book
 | William John Courthope - 1910 - 526 pages
...of love, When now the young are rear'd, and when the old, Lost to the tie, grow negligent and cold : Far to the left he saw the huts of men, Half hid in...gathering for the sea, Took their short flights and twitter'd on the lea ; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, And slowly blacken'd in the... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1914 - 378 pages
...love, When now the young are reared, and when the old, Lost to the tie, grow negligent and cold— Far to the left he saw the huts of men, Half hid in...; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, All these were sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look And of his mind—he... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 634 pages
...love, When now the young are rear'd, and when the old, Lost to the tie, grow negligent and cold — • Far to the left he saw the huts of men, Half hid in...gathering for the sea, Took their short flights, and twitter'd on the lea; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, And slowly blacken'd in the... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 664 pages
...upon the fen ; Before him swallows, gathering for the sea, Took their short flights, and twitter'd on the lea ; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, And slowly blacken'd in the sickly sun ; All these were sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1921 - 626 pages
...love, When now the young are reared, and when the old, Lost to the tie grow negligent and cold — Far to the left he saw the huts of men, Half hid in...him swallows gathering for the sea, Took their short nights and twittered on the lea ; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, And slowly blackened... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1923 - 456 pages
...of love When now the young are reared, and when the old, Lost to the tie, grow negligent and cold : Far to the left he saw the huts of men. Half hid in...for the sea, Took their short flights and twittered o'er the lea; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done. And slowly blackened in the sickly sun... | |
 | Crabbe - 1967 - 492 pages
...when the old, Lost to the tie, grow negligent and cold — Far to the left he saw the huts of men, 422 Half hid in mist, that hung upon the fen ; Before...gathering for the sea, Took their short flights, and twitter'd on the lea; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, And slowly blacken'd in the... | |
 | H. C. Beeching - 2019 - 70 pages
...Autumn, that by Crabbe, at the end of Delay has Danger: — " He saw the wind upon the water blow ; Far to the left he saw the huts of men, Half hid in...harvest done, And slowly blackened in the sickly sun." There is only one epithet there which very definitely fixes the key of the passage, the epithet "sickly";... | |
 | 596 pages
...love, When now the young are rear'd, and when the old, Lost to the tie, grow negligent and cold — Far to the left he saw the huts of men, Half hid in...gathering for the sea, Took their short flights, and twitter'd on the lea ; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, And slowly blacken'd in the... | |
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