 and the site of his schoolhouse ; and Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, *The wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread* (and to this day the brook and ditches near the spot where her cabin stood abound...  Select Poems of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 127by Oliver Goldsmith - 1875 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...life is fled. All but yon widow'd soJitary thing, That feebly bends besides the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mant'ling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn, She only left... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left... | |
 | English poetry - 1803 - 294 pages
...life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron ! forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, Tp seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ! She only... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...is fled:.... All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn.; She only left... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...life is fled ; All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left... | |
 | Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 236 pages
...as he lived ; and his ' " modest mansion" as it existed. ' Burn, the name of the village-master, * and the site of his school-house; and ' Catherine...spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches r near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses) still remain in ' the memory of the inhabitants,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 488 pages
...life is fled, All but yon widow'd solitary thing. That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread; To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn. To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...life is fled, All but yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mora; ' She only... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left... | |
| |
