| Adela Sidney (hon.) - 1847 - 318 pages
...in a different part of the town, where he carried on his business most flourishingly. CHAPTER VIII. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
| Jacob Abbott - Scotland - 1848 - 352 pages
...bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred! Unskillful he to note the card* Of prudent lore, The billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er. Such fate of suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has strir'!!, By human pride or cunning driv'n... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...rural shade ! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust ; Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred : Unskilful he to note the card, Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
| Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...2 By love's simplicity betray'd, And guiletess trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd is laid Low f the dust. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's...and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ' Such fate of suffering worth isgiv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n. By human pride or cunning driv'n.... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust ; Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid BURNS. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred : Unskilful he to note the card, Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred! Unskilful he to note the card Of prndent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And...suffering worth is given, Who long with wants and woes had striven, By human pride or cunning driven To misery's brink, Till wrenched of every stay but Heaven,... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...the rural shade! By love's simplicity betrayed, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled, is laid • Low i' the dust. Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starred! Unskilful he to note the card Of prndent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, ing bird, wee, helpless thing, That, in the merry...wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, An" close thy of suffering worth is given, Who long with wants and woes has striven By human pride or cunning driven,... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray 'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate...Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm liim o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1852 - 356 pages
...flow'rct of the tural shade ! By love's simplicity bctray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thec, all soil'd is laid Low i' the dust. Such is the fate...ocean luckless starr'd. Unskilful he to note the card TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY. 51 Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow Lard, And whelm him o'er.... | |
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