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" midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic ages grey Pour their fair children forth ; and hamlets low, With whose thick orchard-blooms the soft winds play, Send out their inmates in a happy... "
Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine). - Page 167
1852
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English Sonnets: A Selection

John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...Knowing but this— that thou shalt find thy Guide ! FELICIA D. HEMANS. 1794—1835. SABBATH SONNET. How many blessed groups this hour are bending Through...meadow-paths their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed day ! The halls from old heroic...
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England and Scotland as influenced by the Reformation: a prize essay

James Largie Blake - 1875 - 78 pages
...we feel how much the poetess may be sympathised with who sings thus of the English Sabbath : — " How many blessed groups this hour are bending Through...meadow-paths their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Where the sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed day ! The halls from old heroic...
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The Book of Noble Englishwomen: Lives Made Illustrious by Heroism, Goodness ...

Charles Bruce - Great Britain - 1875 - 636 pages
...hearth, the home, and the affections, dictated to her brother her last strain, the 1 SABBATH SONNET. •How many blessed groups this hour are bending. Through England's primrose meadowpaths, their way Towardspire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the h.illow'd...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...the following fine sonnet, dictated to her brother on Sunday the 26th of April : Sunday in England. hus all through merry Islington These gambols he did play, Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonto Toward spire and tower, "midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the 'hallo...
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Afternoons with the Poets

Charles Dunham Deshler - English poetry - 1879 - 334 pages
...hedge : — Oh ! never may we lose, Dear friend ! our fresh delight in simplest nature's hues !' " ' How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic...
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A treasury of English sonnets, ed. with notes by D.M. Main

David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...immeasurable skies Knowing but this — that thou shall find thy Guide ! ccxcvin SABBATH SONNET. TT OW many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed day ! The halls from old heroic...
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A Treasury of English Sonnets

David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...immeasurable skies Knowing but this — that thou shalt find thy Guide ! CCXCVIII SABBATH SONNET. TT OW many blessed groups this hour are bending, •*•...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, VVhence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed day ! The halls from old heroic...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...following fine sonnet, dictated to her brother on Sunday the 26th of April : Sunday in England. Uow many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...England's primrose meadow-paths, their way Towards spire aud tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence tho sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed day ; The halls,...
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Famous girls who have become illustrious women

John Maw Darton - 1880 - 364 pages
...Sonnet," the last strain of the singer ere she entered those regions where there is no more pain — " How many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through England's primrose meadow-paths their way, Toward spire and tower, "midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed...
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Treasury of English Sonnets. Ed. from the Original Sources with Notes and ...

David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...immeasurable skies Knowing but this—that thou shalt find thy Guide ! CCXCVIlI SABBATH SONNET. T_T OW many blessed groups this hour are bending, Through...meadow-paths, their way Towards spire and tower, 'midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallowed day ! The halls from old heroic...
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