 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
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the morn Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapp'd waist and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 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 spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and froze locks, News from all nations lumb'ring... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 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 spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; Xews from all nations lumbering... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...! '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 spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 508 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 conies, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks; News from... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 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," &c. In modern editions, I believe universally, we find the following corruption of the... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in whieh 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 - 1851 - 624 pages
...HARK ! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides tis nought to me : Since God is ever present, ever...In the void waste as in the city full; And where He noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering... | |
 | Mark Trafton - Europe - 1852 - 478 pages
...— • " the twanging horn o'er youder bridge, That with its wearisome hut 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...! '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, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks, News from all nations lumbering... | |
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