Sweet smiling village ! loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green ! One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy... The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns]. - Pagina 28de Book - 1847 - 186 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| 1795 - 432 pagini
...gifts, only that they may become the prey of barbarous exactors. ROUSSEAU. Confessions, vol. ib iv. SWEET smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| 1800 - 322 pagini
...neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs, the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pagini
...thy bow'rs their crieerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : a&rmnbtr ifeti. &,t' 4 One... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pagini
...round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms... But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pagini
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pagini
...round thy bo w'rstheirchcerfulinflueneeshed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pagini
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms tire fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn. Thy...; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choak'd with sedges, works its weedy way; Alonif thy Blades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding... | |
| 1806 - 330 pagini
...neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs, the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 938 pagini
...repositories to visit the sublunary world their grosser bodies had long bid adieu to. CHAP. CHAP. VIL " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charmi withdrawn i Amidst thy bowers the Tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all the green.... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pagini
...round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms— But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sou u ding... | |
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