 tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...  Poems - Page 137by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...! 'tis the twanging horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 pages
...horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, on which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright : He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, m which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered Ixiots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...Hark ! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, that with its wearisome but needful length bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright. (c) Years change thee not. Upon yon hill the tall old maples, verdant still, yet tell, in grandeur... | |
 | Edward Conant - English language - 1887 - 164 pages
...Hark ! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled...face reflected bright ; He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen News from all nations lumbering at his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...bod;corporate— The love of rural objects natural to all, and never to be totally extinguished. Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locUs, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1894 - 684 pages
...Hark ! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright. He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...! 'tis the twanging horn ! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - English poetry - 1896 - 312 pages
...there are such in heaven." 2 See Task, 1:764; 4:254-258. The best lines on the moon are in Task, 4:3, " the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright." 3 Task, 1:520; 6:495. 1 Truth, 238. s Task, 4:322. 6 Illustrative similitudes are those drawn from... | |
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