 As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favouring winds to leave the land; While still for flight the ready wing is spread: So waited I the favouring hour, and fled; Fled from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried,...  Poems - Страница 10по George Crabbe - 1812Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 416 страници
...Who far from civil arts and social fly, And scowl at strangers with suspicious eye. ***** As on the neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favouring winds to leave the knd ; While still for flight the ready wing is spread, So waited I the favouring hour, and fled —... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 страници
...beg, with timely change, their future biead. Such are our guides. — Crabbe : The Newspaper. (37) As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...While still for flight the ready wing' is spread. —Crabte: Village. (38) The swallow tribes in spring Thus daily multiply upon the wing, As if the... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 страници
...their eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Theirs, or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, ' Ah ! hapless they who still remain — Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 страници
...their eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way, Theirs, or the ocean's miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, ' Ah ! hapless they who still remain — Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy... | |
 | Edna Chynoweth - 1897 - 292 страници
...or unstained by tears: (1) This is the way he speaks of leaving Aldborough. "As on their neighboring beach yon swallows stand, And wait for favouring winds...hour, and fled; Fled from these shores where guilt andfamine reign, And cried, Ahí hapless they who still remain; Who s 1 11 remain to hear the oeean... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 страници
...eager eye, Which to their coast directs its vent'rous way ; Theirs, or the ocean's, miserable prey. As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand,...wait for favouring winds to leave the land ; While sull for flight the ready wing is spread : So waited I the favouring hour, and fled ; Fled from these... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1903 - 230 страници
...resolution to leave the home of his birth and try his fortune in the city of wits and scholars — " As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, ' Ah ! hapless they who still remain — Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1903 - 232 страници
...resolution to leave the home of his birth and try his fortune in the city of wits and scholars — " As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, 'Ah ! hapless they who still remain — Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1905 - 720 страници
...especially remarkable as having attracted the attention of Burke and won his favour for the poet : — As on their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, "Ah ! hapless they who still remain — • Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1905 - 568 страници
...their neighbouring beach yon swallows stand, / 'And wait for favouring winds to leave the land, 120 While still for flight the ready wing is spread :...from these shores where guilt and famine reign, And cried, Ah ! hapless they who still remain ; Who still remain to hear the ocean roar, Whose greedy waves... | |
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