 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...published ia the Volume before us. * In vain to me the fmiling mornings fliine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous defcant join ; Or chearful fields refume their green attire.Tlide ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...is exceedingly tender and mournful. In vain to me the fmiling mornings fliine, And redd'ning Phcehus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous defcant join ; Or cheerful field* refume their green attire : Thefe ears, alas ! for other note* repine, A different... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...belt appear from the following beautiful little fonnet : " In vain to me the fmiling mornings fhine, " And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire: '' The birds in vain their am'rous defcant join, " Or cheerful fields refume their green attire : " Thefe ears, alas ! for other... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...sing their fall. SONNET1" ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine. And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1858 - 196 pages
...honourable death. 47 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. JN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. • N vain to me the fmiling mornings fhine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous defcant join ; Or cheerful fields refume their green attire : Thefe ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1886 - 176 pages
...honorable death. SONNET On the Death of Mr. Richard West. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire ; These ears, alas ! for other notes repine... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...myself a man. 1742. 1748. SONNET ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire; The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas! for other notes repine;... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...the year of West's death ; publ. posthumously by Mason.] IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, t descant join; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine,... | |
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And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different object do these eyes require. My lonely anguish melts no... 