 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world...its busy follies leave, And talk with wisdom where ray Daphn'S lies. I There let me sleep, forgotten in the clay, When death shall shut these weary aching... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 338 pages
...reigns, And the rank grass waves e'er the cheerless ground There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world...busy follies leave, And talk with wisdom where my DAPHMIS lies. There let me sleep, forgotten, in the clay, When death shall shut these weary aching... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 354 pages
...reigns, And the rank grass waves o-er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world and all its busy follies leave, And talk withwisdo'm where my DAPIINIS lies. There let me sleep, forgotten, in the clay, When death shall shut... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless crounA There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world and all its busy follies le»ve, And talk with wisdom where myDAPHNis lies. There let me sleep, forgotten, in the clay, When... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at the shut of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes ; The world...busy follies leave, And talk with Wisdom where my Baphnis lies. There let me sleep forgotten in the clay, When death shall shut these weary aching eyes;... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - Poetry - 1810 - 450 pages
...And the dank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. " THERE let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world...follies leave, And talk with wisdom where my Daphnis liee. " THE»E let me sleep forgotten in the clay, When death shall shut these weary acliing eyes,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...the rank grass wqves o'er thecheerless ground. There let me wander at the close of eve, . .. ' When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes ; The world and all its busy follies leave, There let me sleep forgotten in the clay, When death shall shut these weary aching eyes; Rest in the... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world and all its busy follies leave, Ami talk with wisdom where my DAPHNIS lies. There let me sleep, forgotten, in the clay, When death... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...Where Ulelauchojy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. * There let me sleep forgotten in the clay, When death shall shut these weary aching eyes ; Rest in the hojies of an eternal day Till the long night is gone, and the last mom arix .• It would have given... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pages
...the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. • . There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world...busy follies leave, And talk with wisdom where my Daphois lies. There let me sleep, forgotten, in the clay. When Death shall shut these weary aching... | |
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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. There let me wander at the shut of eve. 
