Than those of age•, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art... The Popular Educator - Page 411867Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...! ruler of the inverted year, Thy scatter'd hah- with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...with other snows Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leaffess branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels,... | |
| Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...Winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scatter'd hair with sleet-like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
| Henry Neele - English poetry - 1839 - 264 pages
...year! Thy scatter'd hair, with sleet-like ashes fiU'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheek Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Winter, ruler of th' inverted year, Thy scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...white, with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...Winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes flll'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forebead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...scatter'd hair with sleet like ashes fill'd, Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age, thy forehead wrapp'd in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne 125 A sliding car, indebted to no... | |
| Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...Winter, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made...car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, — I love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art !" Allegory... | |
| 1843
...the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet-like ashes filled, Thy breath congealed upon thy_ lips, thy cheeks Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of a<*c, thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted... | |
| Charles F. Ellerman - 1843 - 650 pages
...gazed wonderingly, and almost reverently, on the enormous goblin, which suddenly bowed its head — " Fringed with a beard made white with other snows Than those of Age," and with a loud and appalling sound fell into a thousand fragments, scattering themselves in all directions.... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1844 - 504 pages
...scattered hair with sleet like ashes fill'd Thy breath congeal'd upon thy lips ; thy cheeks Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds ; A leafless branch thy sceptre ; and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels,... | |
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