 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy...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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1865 - 80 pages
...reprove : 30 These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, tanght e'en toil to please; These round thy bowers their...smiling plain ; 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects (he day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...fled. These were thy charms, — but all these charms 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 Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...These were thy charms — but all these charms arc 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 Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 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 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
 | 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 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. 4° No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 328 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 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain : No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...were thy charms — but all these charms are fl«d. 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,... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - Land tenure - 1870 - 570 pages
...Sligo, Sir Roger Palmer, and Mr. Allan Pollock :— " 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. And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - Land tenure - 1870 - 620 pages
...Sligo, Sir Roger Palmer, and Mr. Allan Pollock : — " Sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plam. And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.... | |
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