| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...as in the following lines — so simple, yet so beautiful : — " Toiling in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labour dithering stands,...crumping snows, Stamps in vain to warm his toes." And again : " Though all's vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm ; Friendship none its... | |
| 1864 - 640 páginas
...one of his complainte : — " Toiling in the naked fields Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor dithering stands, Beats and blows his numbing hands,...the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes." A delicate poetic organization earning a maximum wage of nine shillings a week, on condition of going... | |
| Anne Elizabeth Baker - 1854 - 478 páginas
...give such a sound as ice or frozen snow does when it yields to the feet." So used by us. See CRAUNCH. And upon the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. CLARE'S " Rural Life," &c. p. 47. The frozen snow crumps loud beneath his tread. CLARE's MS. Poems.... | |
| John Clare, John Law Cherry - 1873 - 388 páginas
...simplicity, and the vivid realism of the scene which they depict : — • Toiling in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labour dithering stands,...crumping snows Stamps, in vain, to warm his toes. Leaves are fled, that once had power To resist a summer shower ; And the wind so piercing blows, Winnowing... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 páginas
...TOIT.INO in the naked fields, Wiie re no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor dithering stands. Boats and blows his numbing hands, And upon the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. Though all's in vain to keep him warm. Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 páginas
...FRANCES S. OSCOOO. THE LABORER. TOILING in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor dithering stands, Beats and blows his numbing hands,...the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. Though all 's in vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...SARGENT OSGOOD. THE LABORER. TOILING in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor Though all 's in vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...РДВКЕН. THE LABORER. TOILIXO in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labor The shout of them that feast ; And they who, with...Leader, Have conquer'd in the fight, For ever and for ev Though all's in vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
| John Cuthbertson - 1886 - 486 páginas
...Hard and brittle, spoken oi bread (and other easily broken things). Toiling in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy Labour dithering stands,...the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. — Clare. She took some little cakes out of her basket which she gave him, and he crumfd them between... | |
| Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 páginas
...chain. —George W. Cutter. TOILING in the naked fields, Where no bush a shelter yields, Needy labor dithering stands, Beats and blows his numbing hands,...the crumping snows Stamps in vain to warm his toes. Though all's in vain to keep him warm, Poverty must brave the storm, Friendship none its aid to lend,... | |
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