Is it true that all through strangers, We must starve in our own land?" Low upon her chair that mother Droops, and sighs with tearful eye; At the hearthstone lags the father, Musing o'er the days gone by.

God help the poor, who in this wintry morn, Come forth of alleys dim and courts obscure; God help yon poor, pale girl, who droops forlorn, And meekly her affliction doth endure!

This old male party, with the remains of a luxuriant growth of very red hair, clinging fondly, like underbrush round a rock, to the sides of his head, with a seedy-looking patch far under the chin to match, whose limp dickey droops pensively as if seeking to crawl bodily into the embrace of the plaid gingham which encircles his neck, and in whose nose is embodied that rare vermilion tint which artists so love to dwell upon;this is the Hon.

From naked groves nae birdie sings; To shepherd's pipe nae hillock rings; The breeze nae od'rous flavour brings From Borean cave; And dwyning Nature droops her wings, Wi' visage grave.

Yet grant them health, 'tis not for us to tell, Though the head droops not, that the heart is well; Or will you praise that homely, healthy fare, Plenteous and plain, that happy peasants share!

Whose state, like pine-trees, waving to and fro, Droops, and o'er canopies his regal brow, This couplet was inserted in the editions 1793 to 1832.]

why droops your head? Is then your other husband dead? Or does a worse disgrace betide? Hath no one since his death applied?' 'Alas!

I wonder why it droops and flows About her face; howe'er she pose, It always serves her as a screen; I cannot guess, and yet I ween It keeps the freckles from her nose, Her leghorn hat.

A girl is asked to wed, She straightway says, "Go ask papa," And coyly droops her head.

Their tender tears, as o'er the stream they bend; The lovesick Violet, and the Primrose pale Bow their sweet heads, and whisper to the gale; 15 With secret sighs the Virgin Lily droops, And jealous Cowslips hang their tawny cups.

And o'er Britannia shakes his fiery hairs; When no soft shower descends, no dew distills, Her wave-worn channels dry, and mute her rills; 365 When droops the sickening herb, the blossom fades, And parch'd earth gapes beneath the withering glades.

(Lassitude overtakes himhis head nods and droops as he speaks.)

Not many of these charming old houses are now extant: but whenever we see one, we are almost sure to find it accompanied by its Elm, standing upon the green open space that slopes up to it in front, and waving its long branches in melancholy grandeur over the venerable habitation which it seems to have taken under its protection, while it droops with sorrow over the infirmities of its old companion of a century.

There sits my mother upon a stone, And to and fro she shakes her head; She winks not, she nods not, her head it droops sore; She slept so long, she waked no more; She slept, that we might taste of bliss: Ah I those were happy times, I wis! FAUST Since here avails nor argument nor prayer, Thee hence by force I needs must bear.

"And his snow-white forehead inclined towards our world, as droops a flower that has no moisture in summer.

The tradition of the family is, that this knight was the standard-bearer of Henry of Richmond in the Battle of Bosworth Field; and a banner, supposed to be the same that he earned, now droops over his effigy.

The flag of our country droops heavily from yonder staff; the breeze has died away along the green plain of Chadd's Fordthe plain that spreads before us, glistening in the sunlight; the heights of the Brandywine arise gloomy and grand beyond the waters of yonder stream, and all nature holds a pause of solemn silence, on the eve of the uproar and bloodshed and strife of to-morrow.'

The lily droops and dies, that lustrous thing; The solid-seeming snowdrift melts full fast; And maiden's bloom is rare, but may not last.

What we know of one is the way she droops and is so openly bored by other girls that it is quite a blow to our vanity to be obliged to be with her.

Can it stare my womanhood down, or hope To scorch my pride till it droops and dies?

My pillow sweet of lavender Smooth with an amiable hand, And may the dark pass peacefully by As in the hour-glass droops the sand.

It droops its head As if in weary pain.' '

The pine-tree rises large and free; the birch droops its branches, as the weeping willow alone has power to doand what magnificently grand oaks!

Perchance of earthly voices the last voice That shall an instant my freed spirit stay On this world's verge, will be some message blown Over the dim salt lands that fringe the coast At dusk, or when the trancèd midnight droops With weight of stars, or haply just as dawn, Illumining the sullen purple wave, Turns the gray pools and willow-stems to gold.

This kohobba powder is so strong that those who take it lose consciousness; when the stupefying action of the powder begins to wane, the arms and hands become loose and the head droops.