 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader, browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 5by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1917 - 362 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great! Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing, Eager... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1918 - 2040 pages
...rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud,, , How indigent the great! . • .1 Still is the toiling hand of Care: The panting herds repose: . < Yet, hark, how through the... | |
 | Luiz Eugenio de Moraes Costa - 1920 - 142 pages
...brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardpur of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How...Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great ! Then the poet's thought takes a new turn as his eyes light on the insects humming and flying around... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little...Still is the toiling hand of Care: The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect-youth are on the wing,... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little...Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - 1924 - 294 pages
...seeks retirement (of course stretched at ease beneath a tree beside a stream) only in order to think How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! He sees, to be sure, the bright-colored swarms of insects, but To Contemplation's sober eye Such... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God (1). Pensieri e sentenze varie. How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! *** Man's feeble race what ills await 1 Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1929 - 1488 pages
...rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd. How low. how little are the proud, -'...Still is the toiling hand of Care : The panting herds repose ; Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! 25 The insect-youth are on the... | |
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