 That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain,...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 31by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...their queen. This racks the joints, this fires the veins, 85 That every labouring sinew strains, Those ht; The seas that roll unnumbered waves; The wood that spreads its shady lea soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. 90 To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - Europe - 1928 - 454 pages
...their queen. This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every laboring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage; Lo, Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...excitement grows: Th1s racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo, Poverty to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age.13 In The Seasons this technique of discrimination by means... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...their Queen: This racks the joints, this fires the veins, That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage: Lo, Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. (PTG 59-63) The horrors that constitute Gray's catalogue... | |
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