Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade ! The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the... The minor poems of William Cowper - Страница 40по William Cowper - 1818 - 108 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Collection - 1856 - 120 страници
...from the heat, And the scene where his melody charm' d me before lit 'son i ids with his sweet flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away,...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
| Septimus Sears - 1856 - 906 страници
...Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charm'd me hefore Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My...must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my hreast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'T is a sight to engage... | |
| Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1859 - 462 страници
...retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. ""Tin a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
| William Cowper - 1859 - 324 страници
...screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away,...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
| William Cowper - 1860 - 506 страници
...retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no...on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another snch grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing... | |
| 1860 - 784 страници
...breeze sprung up, they must have perished in the vuvea. And the scene where his melody charnrt. mi before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are hasting away And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head,... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 страници
...retreat Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat; And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Short-lived... | |
| Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 страници
...from the heat ; And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before. Resounds with his sweet flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away,...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
| Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 страници
...objective view of the country gives place to his own introspective questionings, to human interest : My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. And then from his own, personal, individual sorrow of mortality, the poet's thoughts turn to the wider... | |
| Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 страници
...retreat Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
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