| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...complain Of such as, wand'ring near her seci'et bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the...mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's... | |
| 1847 - 240 pages
...afford branches on Palm Sunday: others that they were emblematical of silence and death. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the...in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell securely laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Gray. They now, however, form the most ancient... | |
| 1847 - 334 pages
...some quiet mood, the sequestered churchyard of Stoke, and, looking over the low wall, " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, 'Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap," settle, if we can, the much-disputed question of the locality of Gray's Elegy. On another day, amid... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...complain, Of such as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
| Richard Buxton - 1849 - 200 pages
...746. March. T. In the neighbourhood of old halls, church-yards, &c. ; but planted. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...complain, Of such as, wamlerin^ near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The breezy call of incense-breathing moru,... | |
| William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...still,' and Nature made a pause, — An awful pause, — prophetic of her end." Slow. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude4 forefathers of the hamlet sleep.... | |
| Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 pages
...might have inspired the inimitable Elegy of Gray. "Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rnde forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twitt'ring... | |
| Francis Brown Eaton - 1852 - 174 pages
...course of time nothing will remind us of the past, save the moss grown tomh stone. -'Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The... | |
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