 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...other merriment, dull tree! is thioe. See yonder hallow'd fane ! the pious work Of names once fam'd, now dubious or forgot, And buried 'midst the wreck...were) There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. The wind is up: hark! how it howls! Methiuks, Till now, I never heard a sound so dreary ! Doors creek,... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1802 - 160 pages
...merriment, dull tree ! is thine. See yonder hallow'd fane! — the pious work Of names once fam'd, now dubious or forgot, And buried 'midst the wreck...were ; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. VARIATIONS. Methinks I know thee, &c. Of those that liv'd some hundred years ago ; Where lie interr'd... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...other merriment, dull tree ! is thine. See, yonder hallow'd fane ! the pious work Of names once fam'd, now dubious or forgot, And buried 'midst the wreck...were; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. The wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! Methinks, Till now, I never heard a sound so dreary ! Doors... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree ! is thine. See yonder ballow'd fane;—the pious work Of names once famed, now dubious .or forgot,...buried midst the wreck of .things which were; There lie mterr'd the more illustrious dead. The wind is up: hark ! how it howls 1 JMcthinks Till now I never... | |
 | Joseph Jefferson (Independent minister.) - 1809 - 38 pages
...A POEM. WITH A VIEW OF THE CHAPEL. See yonder hallow'd fane ; the pious woi k Of Names once fam'4, now dubious or forgot, And buried 'midst the wreck of things which were ; There lie imerr'd the most illustrious dead. BLAIR. THE SECOND EDITION, Improced and Entarged. B/tSIXCSTOKE :... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...other merriment, dull tree! is thine. See yonder hallow'd fane! the pious work Of names once fam'd, now dubious or forgot, And buried midst the wreck...were; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. The wind is up: hark! how it howls! Methinks, Till now, I never heard a sound so dreary! Doors creek,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...widow, too, I've sometimes 'spy'd, Sad sight! ïlo \v~ui6vïn g o'er the prostrate dead: ^nd burv'd midst the wreck of things which were; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. Tie wind is up : — hark ! how it howls ! — Methinks, Till now, I never heard a sound so dreary:... | |
 | Robert Chapman (of Glasgow.) - 1812 - 322 pages
...solemn, and calculated to awaken iii the soul, the most serious emotions. See yonder hallow'd fane;—the pious work Of names once famed, now dubious or forgot, And buried mid the wreck'of things which were; There lie interr'd the more Illustrious dead. The wind is up: hark!... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...thine. See yonder hatluw'd fane—the pious work Of names once fann'd, uow dubious or forgot, And bury'd midst the wreck of things which were : There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. Thi; wind is up : hark ! how it howls ! methinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary : Doors creak,... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...merriment, dull tree! is thine. See yonder hallow'd fane—the pious work vaults, Of names once fam'd, now dubious or forgot, And buried midst the wreck...were; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. The wind is up: hark! how it howls! Methinks Till now I never heard a sound so dreary: Doors creak,... | |
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midst the wreck of things which were; There lie interr'd the more illustrious dead. The wind is up: hark! how it howls! Methinks Till now, I never heard a sound so dreary: Doors creak, and windows clap, and night's foul bird, Rook'd... 
