 | Frederick William Shelton - 1853 - 374 pages
...abroad as if he had Atlas on his shoulders, instead of the quarrelsome little parish of St. Asaph's. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering...his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or cross'd in hopeless love." A wife is no Job's... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove, Sow drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. One morn... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering...crossed in hopeless love. One morn I missed him on the 'customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...high, If is listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering...rove, Now drooping woful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or crossed in hopeless lov'e. "One morn I miss'd him on the 'custom'd hill. Along... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...babbles by. " There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful-wan, like one forlorn, Oreraz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. "One morn I miss'd him... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, .And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. " One morn I miss'd... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Muttering...his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. " One morn I missed... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...woods; a glade; the same use as in Milton's "Lycidas" pore: study carefully hard by: close to woeful wan, like one forlorn, / Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love: Notable passage for subtle musical effects, especially alliteration. Note also the subdued pun on "wan"... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 pages
...high, 'His listless length at noontide would he stretch, 'And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, 'Muttering...his wayward fancies he would rove, 'Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, 'Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. 'One morn I missed... | |
 | Robert C. Roberts - 2003 - 372 pages
...so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook tha1 babbles by. "Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove; Now drooping, woeful-wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. "One morn I missed... | |
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There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by. 
