 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy...  Studies from the English Poets - Page 494by George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 519 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 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 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; No more thy glassy brook reflects' the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 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 Sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy glades,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...rViVThese 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 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain.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. ^. No more thy grassy .bjook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way; Along thy glades,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...thy charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy ports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 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. Ko more the grassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 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 ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, Hut, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...fled. DESOLATING EFFECTS OF LAND-MONOPOLY OS THE VILLAGE. 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. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
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