 In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall...  The American Whig Review - Pagina 4681849Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 pagine
...thoughts of "tender anguish" overtake him. He thinks of His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas I Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold. . . . Because he is awake to social wrongs, Thomson... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pagine
...the wrung bosom of the dying Man, His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve The... | |
 | Henry Buckley Charlton - 1924 - 216 pagine
...Winter (1729), describes the death of a shepherd overcome by a blizzard on the hills ; he goes on — In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. Children do not " demand their sire " ; they call for their father. The pathos of the real child bereft... | |
 | Francis La Mar Janney - 1925 - 154 pagine
...Collection of the Most esteemed Pieces of Poetry, 2»<J ed., London, 1770, p. 167. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence — Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.16 In Mallet'sjTAe... | |
 | Gesiena Andreae - 1925 - 150 pagine
...who finds death in a snowstorm, causes him to dwell on the fate of the widow and children in Winter: In vain his little children, peeping out Into the...demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home x In the last lines... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pagine
...shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man — His wife, his children, and his friends, unseen. ne.' 'A baron's childe to be begyled, it were a curssed dede, To be felaw with an outlaw 90 In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire With tears of... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 pagine
...lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. In vain for him th'officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment...peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. Thomson, Winter, 311-4. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield. Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 pagine
...lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. In vain for him th'officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment...peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - 1922 - 272 pagine
...from Thomson, he in a certain sense improved on his original. Thomson had written in Winter^ — ' In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire...demand their sire With tears of artless innocence. . . .' In Popular Superstitions of the Highlands Collins transforms this into ' For him, in vain, the... | |
 | Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie - 2007
...anthologised by Bysshe and Baker, and incorporated thus by James Thomson in The Seasons: In vain for him th' officious Wife prepares The Fire fair-blazing, and...demand their Sire, With Tears of artless Innocence. Alas! Nor Wife, nor Children, more shall he behold, Nor Friends, nor sacred Home. ('Winter' 311-17;... | |
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