 And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove...  Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse - Side 55av Charles Granville Gepp - 1830 - 142 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1918 - 2030 sider
...heat; And the scene where his melody charmed me before Resounds with his sweet -flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man; Though his life... | |
 | Maurice Hewlett - 1920 - 196 sider
...contrast the Elegy with The Poplar Field : My fugitive years are all wasting away, And I must ere long be as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. Put beside that melodious jingle the ordered diction and ordered sentiment of one of the best-known... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 sider
...objective view of the country gives place to his own introspective questionings, to human interest : My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. And then from his own, personal, individual sorrow of mortality, the poet's thoughts turn to the wider... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 sider
...heat, And the scene where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | 1924 - 40 sider
...retreat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man; Though his life... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 sider
...ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, 14 With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 sider
...heat, And the scene where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 sider
...lowly as they, And the tree is my seat that once lent With a turf on my breast, and a stone me a shade. at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. The blackbird has fled to another retreat 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing Where the hazels afford... | |
 | 1923 - 748 sider
...heat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man; Though his life... | |
 | Peter C. List - 2000 - 388 sider
...heat; And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must...head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man; Short-lived... | |
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