 To tardy swain no shrill-voiced matrons squall ; No dogs, no babes, no wives, to stun your ear ; No hammers thump ; no horrid blacksmith sear ; Ne noisy tradesman your sweet slumbers start, With sounds that are a misery to hear : But all is calm, as would...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 136edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...cocks, with me, to rustic labor call, From village on to village sounding clear ; 1 aches ; Borrows heard the torrents leap and gush O'er channell'd rock and broken bush; I saw the white-wall ' Imbittered more from peevish day to day. Even those whom fame has lent her fairest ray, No hammers... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - 398 pages
...rustic labour call, From village on to village sounding clear ; To tardy swain no shrill-voic'd matron's squall : No dogs, no babes, no wives, to stun your...hammers thump ; no horrid blacksmith sear, No noisy tradesman your sweet slumbers start, With sounds that are a misery to hear. The second canto, a great... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - 394 pages
...had breathed out his pantheistic hymn, and to whom the noises of animate nature were so intolerable : No cocks, with me, to rustic labour call, From village on to village sounding clear; To tardy swain no shrill-voic'd matron's squall : No dogs, no babes, no wives, to stun your ear ; No hammers thump ;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...for human prey, In venal senate thieve, or rob on broad highway. " No rocks, with me, to rustic labor call. From village on to village sounding clear ;...ear ; No hammers thump ; no horrid blacksmith sear, Ne noisy tradesman your sweet slumbers start, With sounds that are a misery to hear : But all is calm,... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 224 pages
...; Or proul in Courts of Law for human Prey, In venal Senate thieve, or rob on broad High-way. XIV " No Cocks, with me, to rustic Labour call, From Village on to Village sounding clear ; To tardy Swain no shrill- voic'd Matrons squall ; No Dogs, no Babes, no Wives, to stun your Ear ; No Hammers thump ;... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...wounds ; Or prowl in courts of law for human prey, In venal senate thieve, or rob on broad highway. ely, — nourished, and not bound by them. This is...social idea; and the men of culture are the true shrUl-voiced matrons squall; 120 No dogs, no babes, no wives, to stun your ear; No hammers thump ;... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 pages
...to rustic Labour call, From Village on to Village sounding clear ; To tardy Swain no shrill-voic'd Matrons squall ; No Dogs, no Babes, no Wives, to stun...Ear ; No Hammers thump ; no horrid Blacksmith sear, Ne noisy Tradesman your sweet Slumbers start, With Sounds that are a Misery to hear : But all is calm,... | |
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