 O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great ! Still is the toiling hand of...  Poems - Page 5by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - English literature - 1860 - 468 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd , How low, how little, are the proud, How indigent the great! 3 Still is the toiling hand of Care , The panting herds repose; Yet hark ! how through the peopled... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little...Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect youth are on the wing,... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd ! How low, how little,...Still is the toiling hand of care, The panting herds repose — Yet hark ! how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the... | |
 | American poetry - 1861 - 174 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little...Still is the toiling hand of care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark ! how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect youth are on the... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - Politicians - 1861 - 314 pages
...at the Adelphi, on the occasion of a rustic fete. Hear him sing, "At ease reclined, in rustic state, How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great ! " Who would not be Strephon rather than your muchto-be-pitied lord ! Indeed so over-weighted is the... | |
 | Edward Bliss Reed - English poetry - 1912 - 638 pages
...conventional "zephyrs" and the "Hours, fair Venus' train," together with much commonplace moralizing: " How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, How indigent the Great!" 1 See WL Phelps, Selectiong from the Poetry and Prote of Thomat Gray, Boston, 1894, p. 62. The Beginnings... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the Crowd, How low, how little are the Proud, Still is the toiling hand of Care: The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...some water's rushy brink 15 With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great! 20 Still is the toiling hand of Care; The panting herds repose: Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air... | |
 | Birds - 1915 - 130 pages
...rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, How...Still is the toiling hand of Care ; The panting herds repose : Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! The insect-youth are on the wing,... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardor of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud, 21 ph@, Xh@, repose ; Yet hark, how thro' the peopled air The busy murmur glows ! 25 The insect-youth are on the... | |
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