| John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel5 pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing... | |
| John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel2 pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...when they list their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothingsaid... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing... | |
| Hugh Hood - 1993 - 236 pages
...for the protection of all animals. He thought often of the moving lines from John Milton: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swol'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... A great poem about a shepherd. Feed my lambs, feed my sheep, John Sleaford... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...religious or political truths, but empty wind that inflates and sickens their listeners: 'The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.' (lines 115-7) 'L'Allegro' and 'II Penseroso' of all the poems in the 1645... | |
| Rachel Jacoff - 1993 - 296 pages
...che le pecorelle, che non sanno, tornan del pasco pasciute di vento. (Paradiso 29, 107-08) The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw. (Lycidas, 125-26) There is, of course, much in Dante's Catholicism that proves incompatible with Milton's... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swol'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw. Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing... | |
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