 | 1791 - 822 pages
...hear the he!plefs wail, the Ihrick of woe; I fee the muddy wave, the dreary ihorc, The fluggim ftrcams that flowly creep below, Which mortals vifit, and...blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the church -yard's lonely mound, Where Melancholy with ftill Silence reigns, And the rank grafs waves o'er... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1288 pages
...wave, the dreary fliore, The fluggifh flrcams that (lowly creep below, Which mortals viiit, ai.d .cturn no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains! Enough for me thc churchyard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with ilill lilente rcigna, Aud the rank grafs waves... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains! Enough lor me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where Melancholy with still Silence reigns, And the rank grass... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields !...church-yard'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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below., Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields !...church-yard's lonely mound, Where Melancholy with still Silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless crounA There let me wander at the... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields !...church-yard'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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...the mnddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields!...church-yard'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... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - Poetry - 1810 - 450 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit and return no more. " FAREWELL, ye blooming fields'!...me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where melancholy w:th still silence Teigns, And the dank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. " THERE let me wander... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore ; The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields !...church-yard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass wqves o'er thecheerless ground. There let me wander at the... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Highlands (Scotland) - 1817 - 744 pages
...flown." After four more stanzas in the same melancholy strain, he concludes the two last as follows:— " Farewell, ye blooming fields, ye cheerful plains ;...church-yard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless mound. Here let me sleep, forgotten... | |
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Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where Melancholy with still Silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. 
