 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
 | Geraldine Edith Mitton - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 394 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... | |
 | Geraldine Edith Mitton - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 416 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 916 pages
...! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needless length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, — He comes," etc. But the first edition is certainly right, as usual. It is the postman, not the horn, who comes... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...Hark! 't is 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, 5 With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumb'ring... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...'t is the twanging horn I 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. 5 With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumb'ring... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - English essays - 1908 - 156 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, 20 With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - Country life - 1909 - 292 pages
...yonder bridge That with its wearisome but needful length [118] THE POST OFFICE IN MACY'S 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. 4 Truth, 238. 5 Task, 4:322. 6 Illustrative similitudes are those drawn from... | |
 | Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - Basal reading instruction - 1909 - 416 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, lie comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks, News... | |
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