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So the fair tree, which still preserves Her fruit and state while no wind blows, In storms from that uprightness swerves, And the glad earth about her strows With treasure, from her yielding boughs.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir
The shrub is sheltered, when the whirlwind blows, While the oak’s mighty ruin strows the plain.
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James
And none would guess, save him who strows, How much transcendent genius goes Unwept, unknown, into the smear Where ’Vangie lies.
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around; Now prone and grovelling on unsavoury ground.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
Nature, not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows; With pain we lift up our entangled feet, While cross our walks the shooting branches meet.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir
