 | Mrs. M. A. Patrick - Consolation - 1837 - 214 pages
...dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ; Enough for me the churchyard's lowly mound, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...mortals visit and return no more. Farewell, ye bloeming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for mo the church-yard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with...rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let mo wander at tho shut of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the laborer's eyes ; The world and all its busy... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. tive soil ! cheerlesa ground. There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. gross waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at the shut of ere, When sleep sits dewy... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...which close with a hope that one so blameless in life might well cling to as his sheet-anchor : — "Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains...churchyard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still silencti reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at the shut... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...plains ! Knough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, I Where melancholy with still silence reign«, ime in carrying on the siege of Dendermond, parallel with the allies, who pressed thei ете, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes : The world and all its busy follies leave, And... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...well cling to as his sheet-anchor : — "Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plain« ! F.nough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, Where melancholy...let me wander at the shut of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the luborer'seyes : The world and all its busy fullie« leave, And talk with Wisdum where my... | |
 | 412 pages
..."Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains! F,nong!i for me the churchyard's lonely immnil, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the...let me wander at the shut of eve, When sleep sits ilcwy on the labourer's eyes: The worM ;iml a)' its busy follies leave, And talk with Wisdom where... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly sleep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains...let me wander at the shut of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the laborer's eyes; The world and all its busy follies leave, And talk with Wisdom where my... | |
 | 1848 - 592 pages
...the sashed window fringed with honeysuckle which his own hands had trained, or his own premonition of the " ' Church-yard's lonely mound, Where melancholy...And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground,' to make us return to the perusal of such verses again and again. Edmund Burke pronounced his ' Ode... | |
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Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, Where Melancholy with still Silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. 
