 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art -and care defy, Reign o'er the...threaten war ; There poppies nodding, mock the hope af toil ; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf,... | |
 | Edna Chynoweth - 1897 - 292 pages
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither 'd ears; And weeds that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the bli^ited rye; There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war.... | |
 | Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton, Charles Edward Doble, James Sutherland Cotton, Charles Lewis Hind, William Teignmouth Shore, Alfred Bruce Douglas, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1900 - 578 pages
...appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Keign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye : There thistles...ragged infant threaten war ; There poppies, nodding, uiock the hope of toil, There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; Hardy and high, above the... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - 1901 - 448 pages
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...the sterile soil ; Hardy and high above the slender sheat, The slimy mallow waves her silken leaf; O'er the young shoot the charlock throws a shade, And... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - 1901 - 542 pages
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war. There puppies, nodding, mock the hope of toil, There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; Hardy and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...From thence a length of burning sanu appear*, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears , Rank weeds, that every art and care defy. Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles spread their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infants threaten war" The " broad river," called... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 556 pages
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted eye ; Brake, ihrubs and brambles. There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 458 pages
...description : Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the laud and rob the blighted IJB ; Then thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the...poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil ; There the blue bui/loss paints the sterile soil. That is observation as minute as Tennyson's — but how far from... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pages
...neglect. A specimen may be given to show how close an observation governed his art of description : Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye Then thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war ; There poppies... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1905 - 720 pages
...From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the...ragged infant threaten war ; There poppies, nodding, meek the hope of toil, There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil ; Hardy and high, above the slender... | |
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And to the ragged infant threaten war ; There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil; Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf, The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf... 
