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Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, /And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, , And half a tillage stints...

British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ... - Page 277
by Ludwig Herrig - 1885
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Collected Works, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1966 - 460 pages

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The Late Augustans: Longer Poems of the Later Eighteenth Century

Donald Davie - English poetry - 1971 - 172 pages

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Poems of Protest, Old and New: A Selection of Poetry

Arnold Kenseth - Poetry - 1968 - 168 pages

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Controversy in Literature: Fiction, Drama, and Poetry, with Related Criticism

Morris Freedman, Paul Benjamin Davis - American literature - 1968 - 780 pages

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Small Business in Smaller Cities and Towns: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress ...

United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Urban Areas - Small business - 1967 - 288 pages

...Oliver Goldsmith found a century ago when he wrote : Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn ! Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy grassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary...

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