 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. 'Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies...  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 120by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 270 pages
...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. Hard by yon...scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove : N ow drooping, woful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. One... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...stanza : Him h\ve we seen the greenwood side along. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping,...on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ;... | |
 | 1824 - 450 pages
...stray'd, A stranger yet to pain, 1 feel the gales that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow. WEST SIDE. Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring...his wayward fancies, he would rove ; Now drooping, woful, wan, like one forlorn. Or crazed wish care, ur cross'd in hopeless love. One morn I miss'd him... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...beech, That wreaths its old fantastic roots 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; Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...so high, " His listless length at noontide would he stretch,. " And pore upon the brook that bubbles by. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, "...his wayward fancies he would rove; " Now drooping, woful, wan, like one forlorn, " Or craz'd with care, or cross' d in hopeless love. " One morn, I miss'd... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the hrook that bubbles by. Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn, Mutt'ring...his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping-, woful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless lore. One morn I miss'd him... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...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. ' Hard by...his wayward fancies he would rove ; Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or cross'd in hopeless love. ' One morn I miss'd... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 460 pages
...wreathes its old fantastic roots so high , « His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, « And pore upon the brook that babbles by. « Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, v Muttering his wayward fancies, he would rove; « Now drooping , woeful-wan , like one forlorn , «... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, es dight, While the plowman near at hand Whistles o'er the furro srailing as in scorn. Muttering his wayward fancies he would rove, Now drooping woful wan, like one... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1824 - 464 pages
...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 him on the custom'd hill, «... | |
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