 There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 147by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...peep of dawn', | Brushing, with hasty step, the dews away, | To meet the sun upon the upland lawn,. | There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech' , | that wreathes its old fantastic roots so high', | His listless length at noontide would he stretch', | And pore upon the... | |
 | James Grigor - Norfolk (England) - 1841 - 504 pages
...this pattern of taste seems to have been followed by the most of our modern poets. Hear Gray : — " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide he would stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate ; — 25 Haply, some hoary-headed swain may say, 26 " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. xtempore at Mrs Drowzie's conversazione. Come now; your first i fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...the peep of dawn, Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. " There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 'There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch. And pore upon the brook... | |
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...fame unknown" began to be grafted onto descriptions of landscapes. Of Gray's youth it was said that "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech/ That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high,/ His listless length at noontide would he stretch,/ And pore upon the brook... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 pages
...the peep of dawn "Brushing with hasty steps the dews away "To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 100 "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech "That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, "His listless length at noontide wou'd he stretch, "And pore upon the brook... | |
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