 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1792 - 608 pages
...The wren hath wifely built her molly cell, Shelter'd from dorms, in courtly land fo rife, And neftlea o'er her young, and warbles well. 'Tis here with innocence in peaceful glen I pafs my blamelefs moments far from men, Nor wifliing death too foon, nor aflcing life.' CumbcrlancF-s... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...; thick woven eglantine Decks my trim fence, in which, by Silence led, The wren hath wisely placed her mossy cell, Shelter'd from storms, in courtly...men ; Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. ON A FRIGHTFUL DREAM. THIS morn, ere yet had rung the matin peal, The cursed Merlin, with his potent... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...; thick-woven eglantine Decks my trim fence, in which, by Silence led, The wren hath wisely placed her mossy cell, Shelter'd from storms, in courtly...men ; Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. BAMPFYLDE. <§n ein-tsimas. WITH footstep slow, in furry pall yclad, His brows inwreath'd with holly... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...; thick-woven eglantine Decks my trim fence, in which, by Silence led, The wren hath wisely placed her mossy cell, Shelter'd from storms, in courtly...men ; Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. BAMPFYLDE. <§n CCl)ristmas. WITH footstep slow, in furry pall yclad, His brows inwreath'd with holly... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...; thick-woven eglantine Decks my trim fence, in which, by Silence led, The wren hath wisely placed her mossy cell, Shelter'd from storms, in courtly...men ; Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. ©n Christmas. WITH footstep slow, in furry pall yclad, His brows inwreath'd with holly never sere,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1881 - 502 pages
...; thick woven eglantine Decks my trim fence, in which, by Silence led, The wren hath wisely placed her mossy cell, Shelter'd from storms, in courtly...men; Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. SONNETS. ON A FRIGHTFUL DREAM. THIS morn, ere yet had rung tho matin peal, The cursed Merlin, with... | |
 | Cornwall (England : County) - 1913 - 416 pages
...Decks my trim fence, in which, by silence led, The wren hath wisely placed her mossy cell, Sheltered from storms, in courtly land so rife, And nestles...warbles well. 'Tis here with Innocence in peaceful glen 1 pass my blameless moments, far from men, Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. " From the... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...Decks my trim fence ; in which, by silence led, The wren hath wisely built her mossy cell, Shelter 'd from storms, in courtly land so rife, And nestles...men, Nor wishing death too soon, nor asking life. Song To Chloe kind and Chloe fair, With sparkling eye and flowing hair, Tune the harp, and raise the... | |
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Fling odours round ; thick-woven eglantine Decks my trim fence, in which, by Silence led, The wren hath wisely placed her mossy cell, Shelter'd from storms, in courtly land so rife, And nestles o'er her young, and warbles well. 'Tis here with Innocence... 