 | Nathan Drake - 1800
...charitie. The Muse of Gray, too, his honoured it with » tribute worthy it? tender assiduity : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The Xed-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 страници
...Church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. " To build her such a throne ; that art will feel " How vain her best pretensions. Trace her march... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 148 страници
...Criticism chooses to decline the examination, unwilling to shew eagerness to condemn 1 There, scatter^ oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The Red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. him,... | |
 | William Mason - 1811
...church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of the East Our common laurel was first brought... | |
 | William Mason - 1811
...church-yard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Note XVIII. Verse 122. Let England prize this daughter of the East Our common laurel was first brought... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 300 страници
...and read (forthou canst read) the lay Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen, are showers of violets found " The redbreast loves to build and warble there, " And little footsteps lightly print the ground."... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816
...woodlark pip'd her farewell song, With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun : — " And, " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The redbreast loves to build, and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground ! —... | |
 | 1821
...nightingale, red-breast*, wren3, water-wagtail, 1 See TT for 1814, p. 304 ; and for 1817, p. 125. 1 Here scattered oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to haunt and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. GRAY.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 134 страници
...The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely fine, and demand preservation : " ' There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' "... | |
 | British poets - 1822
...churchyard. Here scatter'd oft, the loveliest of the year, Bv hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Or fix this votive tablet, fair inscribed With numbers worthy thee, for they are thine? Why, if thou... | |
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There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. 
