 | Joseph Ritson - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1821 - 282 pages
...he looks to ftem the tide, 700 This moment refolute, next unrefolv'd: At lafi, he dips his foot; bat as he dips, His fears redouble, and he runs away From th' inoffenfive ftream, unmindful now Of all the flow'rs that paint the further bank, 705 And fmil'd fo... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 332 pages
...wish revoke, and will not go. So have I seen, upon a summer's even, Past by the rivulet's brink, a youngster play : How wishfully he looks to stem the...he dips, His fears redouble, and he runs away From the' inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers that paint the further bank, And smiled so... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 322 pages
...unresolved: At last he dips his foot; but as he dips, His fears redouble, and he runs away From the' inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers...that paint the further bank, And smiled so sweet of late.—Thrice welcome That after many a painful bleeding step [Death! Conducts us to our home, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...a youngster play: How wishfully he looks to stem the tide ! This moment resolute, next unresolv'd: wice a twelvemonth you appear in print, And when it...in't. You grow correct, that once with rapture wri flow'rsthat paint the further bank, Andsmil'dsosweetoflate. — ThricewelcomeDeath! That after many... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...wish revoke, and will not go. So have I seen, upon a summer's even, Fast by the rivulet's brink, a youngster play : How wishfully he looks to stem the...he dips, His fears redouble, and he runs away From the inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers that paint the further bank, And smiled so... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...youngster play : How wishfully he looks to stem the tide ! This moment resolute, next unresolv'd : arsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, whieh God...that swim the oeean stream : Him haply slumb'ring flow'rs that paint the further bank, And smil'd so sweet of late. — Thriee weleome, Death ! That... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Women - 1828 - 298 pages
...youngster play : How wishfully he looks to stem the tide ! This moment resolute, rlext unresolv'd : At last he dips his foot ; but as he dips, His fears...he runs away From th* inoffensive stream, unmindful new Of all the flowers that paint the further bank, And smil'd so sweet of late. Thrice welcome That... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...youngster play : How wishfully he looks to stem the tide ! This moment resolute, next unresolv'd : At last he dips his foot ; but as he dips, His fears redouble, and he runs away From the' inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers that paint the further bank, And smil'd so... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...Summer's evenf Fast by the rivulet's brink, a youngster play : How wishfully he louki to item the tide I This moment resolute, next unresolved : At last he...but as he dips, His fears redouble, and he runs away Fmm the inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers that paint the further bank, And sniil'd... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1851 - 142 pages
...youngster play ; How wishfully he looks to stem the tide ! This moment resolute, next unresolv'd ; At last, he dips his foot ; but, as he dips, His fears...inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers which paint the farther bank, And smiled so sweet of late. Thrice welcome Death ! That, after many... | |
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From the inoffensive stream, unmindful now Of all the flowers that paint the further bank, And smiled so sweet of late. Thrice welcome Death ! That after many a painful bleeding step, Conducts us to our home, and lands us safe On the long wish'd-for shore. 
