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" Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all — her friends, her virtue fled — Near her betrayer's door she lays her head... "
Miscellaneous poems. Dramatic poems - Page 73
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1820
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn, Now lost to all 5 her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, Do thine, sweet AUBURN, thine, the loveliest train, Do thy fair tribes participate her pain ? E'en...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue, fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the show'r, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd...brown. Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest Do thy fair tribes.participate her pain? [train, E'en now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led, At proud...
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Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818 ..., Volume 2

Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pages
...lies — Now lost to all her friends, her virtue fled; Near her betrayer's door she lays her head; With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When...town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown." In winter they sleep in the brickyards, where they lie, conglomreated (as it were) in each others arms....
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn : Now lost to all ; her friends, her virtue, fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the show'r, With heavy heart implores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled; of Oeta threw Into th* Euboic sea. Othe Even now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led. At proud men's doors they ask a little bread ! Ah, no. To...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...primrose peeps beneath the thorn. Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's dour she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower. With heavy heart deplorrs that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel, and robes...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pages
...her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the show'r, AVith heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly...wheel and robes of country brown. Do thine, sweet AUBURM, thine, the lovelies! Do thy fair tribes participate her pain ? f train, E'en now, perhaps,...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...adorn, S'jyeet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn : Now lost to all ; her friends, her virtue fled, !Near her betrayer's door she lays her head ; And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the show'r With beavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When iiJly first, ambitious of the town, i She...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...head, And, pineh'd with eold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luekless st by Hell-gate, and kept the fatal key, Ris'n, and with hideous outery rash' eountry brown. Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest train, Do thy fair tribes partieipate her...
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