 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village,...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain : 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way ; Along... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - English poetry - 1867 - 200 pages
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation...reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. 4° No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...These were thy charms— but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...village was both happy and productive, while the new condition is both unhappy and unproductive — One only master grasps the whole domain, And half...reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; PoEL-3; SeCePo; TEP; TrGrPo 2 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, ou beneath the sad and heavy line Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark; (1. 35-40) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1799-1832) The EH-King 1 "O father! O father! now, now, keep... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled, Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens...plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way. Along the glades a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 650 pages
...These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;...domain,'' And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; 7 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choaked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along... | |
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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... 
