Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728-1774 · Hildesheimer and Faulkner · leaf 16
he sounds of population fail,No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale,No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread,But all the blooming flush of life is fled;All but yon widowed, solitary thing,That feebly bends beside the plashy spring;She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread,To strip the…
Irish poetry -- 19th century · Etchings -- English
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