The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Poems, - Página 159por William Cowper - 1803 - 363 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 páginas
...forest tree, How pleasant the life of a bird must be ! MARY HOWITT. 86. THE WOODMAN AND HIS DOG. FOBTH goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, — From morn till eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed... | |
| Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 páginas
...attended on the plain. 13. The tree of knowledge, blasted by disputes, Produces sapless leaves. 14. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear. 15. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropped short, half lurcher... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 páginas
...companion of man. Cowper, for instance, graphically describing a " Winter Morning Walk," says : — " Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...of man , to wield the axe And drive the wedge, in youd€r forest drear From morn to ere hia solitary task." But the poet could not say that he went... | |
| 1864 - 150 páginas
...he is : Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. THOMSON. THE WOODMAN. FORTH goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...; to wield the axe And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd ; with pointed ears,... | |
| Months - 1864 - 262 páginas
...unsupplied ; but silent, meek, And patient of the slow-paced swain's delay. A WINTER MORNING WALK. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
| William Cowper - 1864 - 454 páginas
...the leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanced weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve, his solitary task. ithaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears... | |
| William Cowper - 1864 - 622 páginas
....,:( .' ;,, II. Deciduous, or its own unbalanced weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd , as if anxious to leave no part of it unsalutcd; a ceremony which he neve forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy and lean and shrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
| John Dennis - 1865 - 344 páginas
...With such undeviating and even force He severs it away Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconeern'd The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
| Pen and pencil pictures - 1866 - 176 páginas
...perfume. A child of woe, sprung from the clod, Through thec seeks to ascend to God. , The Woodman. goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1867 - 80 páginas
...loath to lose his treasure, gave command To plunge hia captives in the raging deep. Sir W. Scott. 55. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.—Cowper. 66. Here about the beach I wandered nourishing... | |
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