Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green; One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling... Poems - Page 46by Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...gifts, only that they may become the prey of barbarous exactors. ROUSSEAU. Confessions, vol. ib iv. SWEET smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bow'rs their crieerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : a&rmnbtr ifeti. &,t' 4 One... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs, the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bo w'rstheirchcerfulinflueneeshed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs, the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| Henrietta Rouvière Mosse - 1806 - 938 pages
...repositories to visit the sublunary world their grosser bodies had long bid adieu to. CHAP. CHAP. VIL " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charmi withdrawn i Amidst thy bowers the Tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all the green.... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence | shed, These were thy charms — but all these cbarms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms will*drawn, Amidst thy how'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation suddens all thy green : One... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, [are fled. These were thy charms — but all these charms mberless escapes In ruin end . and now their proud succf« But plants alljthy charms withdrawn, Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...toil to please ; These ronnd thy bowers their cheerfnl inflnence shed , These were thy charms— Bnt all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village,...thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, Andhalfa tillage stints thy smiling plain; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, Bnt, choak'd... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...sweet surcession, taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : « IJH i , nly master grasps... | |
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