| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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 forme the churchyard's lonely mound, p Where Melancholy with still Silence reigns, And the rank grass... | |
| Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...wave, the dreary shore ; The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and returns no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful...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... | |
| Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...more. Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains* Enough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, There let me wander at the close of eve, The world and all its busy follies leave, When sleep sits... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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... | |
| Sketches - English poetry - 1833 - 220 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1835 - 592 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!...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... | |
| Mrs. M. A. Patrick - Consolation - 1837 - 214 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 for me the churchyard's lowly mound, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, . Pg . still silence reigns, | And the rank gross waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...which close with a hope that one so blameless in life might well cling to as his sheet-anchor : — "Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains...the churchyard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still silencti reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground. There let me wander at the... | |
| Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly sleep 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... | |
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