| John Jordan - 1857 - 500 pages
...country Church-yard the subject of his beautiful Elegy, and therein could describe how, 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,... | |
| 1863 - 568 pages
...far removed from the noise and dust of London in the green churchyard of Stoke-Pogis. " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in hig narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1850 - 628 pages
...area is now closely filled with the little grassy mounds which cover the dead: — " '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 forefather's of the hamlet sleep:'... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 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.... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. * * * Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,... | |
| Matthew Glover, Suetonius M. Tod - 1868 - 290 pages
...venerable building, and the surrounding scenery, without being forcibly reminded of those lines of Gray— "Beneath these rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Bach in his narrow cell for ever laid, Th« ruds forefathers of th« hamlet «l»p."... | |
| William Robinson - 1868 - 328 pages
...scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found." And " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap," there is a quiet verdure which makes the spot sweet to look upon 5 but with the... | |
| Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 334 pages
...drowsy rustle of the neighbouring trees, — I thought of Gray's inimitable "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard:" — Beneath these 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.... | |
| William Robinson - 1869 - 328 pages
...scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found." And " Beneath those rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap," there is a quiet verdure which makes the spot sweet to look upon ; but with the... | |
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