Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey. And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls... Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell - Side 38af Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 sider
...around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies. Alas! what sorrows gloomed that parting day, That ialled them from their native walks away ; When the... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 sider
...scorpion gathers death around • Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 sider
...wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, 40 And savage men, more murderous still than they; While...The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless love. Good Heaven ! what sorrows gloomed that parting day, That called... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 sider
...scorpion gathers death arouud : Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; Where crouching tigers wait...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grussy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only sheltered thefts of harmless... | |
| Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 sider
...scorpion gathers death around, — Where, at each step, the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, — Where crouching tigers...flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies." In this rather uninviting sketch, it must be confessed that it is not easy to recognize the natural... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 sider
...scorpion gathers death around : Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers* wait...oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 sider
...scorpion gathers death around — Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake — Where crouching tigers wait...prey, And savage men more murderous still than they 50 While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape with the skies. Far different... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 sider
...scorpion gathers death around — Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake — Where crouching tigers wait...hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than theyGOLDSMITHS POETICAL WOUKS. While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravag'd landscape... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 sider
...dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each wep the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men, more murd'rous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 sider
...scorpion gathers death around; Where, at each step, the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait...these from every former scene, The cooling brook, the grassy- vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd thefts of harmless... | |
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