 | 1807 - 532 psl.
...other mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you...Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 302 psl.
...mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the Got, As truth will paint it and as bards will not : JVor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the...ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales your weighty griefs q'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1808 - 280 psl.
...taught, I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not : Nor you, ye poor, of letter' d scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth...down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme I Can poets sooth you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed? Can their... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 190 psl.
...For you, ye Poor, of letterM scorn complaiu, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'ercchne by labour and bow'd down by time. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can Poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, "By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 306 psl.
...other Mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it and as Bards will not : Nor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'eroome by labour and bow'd down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can Poets soothe... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 310 psl.
...other Mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it and as Bards will not : Nor you, ye Poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you...Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can Poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 304 psl.
...letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain ; O'eroome by labour and bov/d down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can Poets soothe you, when yon pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed '. Can their light tales... | |
 | 1821 - 746 psl.
...other mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not : Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the smoothest long is smooth in vain ; O'ercome by labour and bow'd down by time. Feel you the barren flattery of... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 334 psl.
...other mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not: Nor you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you...Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 302 psl.
...mates; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth will paint it, and as Bards will not: For you, ye poor, of letter'd scorn complain, To you the...Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme ? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruin'd shed ? Can their light tales... | |
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Where other cares than those the Muse relates, And other shepherds dwell with other mates ; By such examples taught, I paint the Cot, As Truth... 
