 | 1820 - 524 pages
...Yet think not I ask thee to pity my lot, Perhaps I see beauty where thou dost not. Hast thou seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak,...I, at thy years might do, Pass'd carelessly by, nor turned again That scathed wreck to view : But now I can draw, from that mould'ring tree, Thoughts which... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...Yet think not I ask thee to pity my lot, Perhaps I saw beauty where thou dost not. Hast thou seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak—...decay, Beneath time's resistless stroke — Round which luxuriant Ivy had grown, And wreatlfd it with verdure no longer its own ; Perchance thou has seen this... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...Yet think not I ask thee to pity my lot, Perhaps I see beauty where thou dost not. Hast thou seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak,...sinking in slow decay. Beneath time's resistless stroke, Bound which a luxuriant ivy had grown, And wreath'd it with verdure no longer its own ? Perchance thou... | |
 | 1820 - 490 pages
...Tet think not I ask thee to pity my lot, Perhaps I see beauty where thon dost sot. Hast thou seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak,...Not dead, but sinking in slow decay, Beneath time's resistless1 stroke, Round which a luxuriant Ivy had grown, And wreath'd it with verdure no longer its... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1820 - 316 pages
...Yet think not I ask thee to pity my lot, Perhaps I see beauty where thou dost not. Hast thou seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak, Not dead, but sinking in slow decay, 134 Perchance thou hast seen this sight, and then, As I, at thy years might do, Pass'd carelessly by,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 866 pages
...Round winch .1 luxuriant Ivy had grown, \wl im-ath'd it witli verdure no longer its own ? fro-nancc thou hast seen this sight, and then, As I, at thy years might do, Pw'd carelessly by, nor turned again To«l scathed 'wreck to view : But now 1 can draw, from that monld'ring... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1820 - 888 pages
...had grown, And wreath' d it with verdure no longer its own ? I'crchuncc thou hast seen this right, and then, As I, at thy years might do, Pass'd carelessly by, nor turned again That scathed wreck to view : Bnt now I can draw, from that mould'ring tree, Thoughts which... | |
 | Bernard Barton - English poetry - 1821 - 260 pages
...Yet think not I ask thee to pity my lot, Perhaps I see beauty where thou dost not. Hast thou seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak,...this sight, and then, As I, at thy years might do, i Pass'd carelessly by, nor turned again That scathed wreck to view : But now I can draw, from that... | |
 | Bernard Barton - English poetry - 1821 - 266 pages
...think not I ask thee to pity my lot, Perhaps I see beauty where thou dost not. Ha.st thou seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak,...grown, And wreath'd it with verdure no longer its own I Perchance thou hast seen this sight, and then, As I, at thy years might do, Pass'd carelessly by,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...(viola tricolor J, are still in blow. Many names have been given to that univer' Hast them seen, in winter's stormiest day, The trunk of a blighted oak,...stroke, Round which a luxuriant ivy had grown, And wreathed it with verdure no longer its own ? Perchance thou hast seen this sight, and then, As I, at... | |
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Hast thou seen in winter's stormiest day The trunk of a blighted oak, Not dead, but sinking in slow decay, Beneath time's resistless stroke, Round which a luxuriant Ivy... 
