 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with...  The Philology of the English Tongue - Pagina 372di John Earle - 1880 - 700 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pagine
...Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. BY GOLDSMITH. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pagine
...; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand Far, far away thy children leave the land. 182 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village pastor's modest mansion rose. A man... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagine
...avarice shall lie, And scholars, soldiers, kings, unhonor'd die. 'Ikt TraoeOcr. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, "where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 pagine
...had always much to say about the Penns of former days. It was all enchanted ground to the young — " Where once the garden smiled, And still, where many a garden flower grew wild !" In the year 1777, old Virgil had quite a harvest, derived from the blooming there —... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pagine
...mind : These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man... | |
 | William Ellis - 1858 - 534 pagine
...probably be regarded as indicating a spot, and by no means the only one I met with in the island, — " Where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." In the evening we returned to Port Louis, pleased with the events of the day, and delighted with the... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pagine
...weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain ! Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A... | |
 | 1918 - 2062 pagine
...and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. ormy nights, when wild north-westers rave, How proud a thing to fight w garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 456 pagine
...wile: little loving acts, as the shy smiles of children. allured: showed that the happivale: a valley. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man... | |
 | Harriet Brown Dow - 1920 - 156 pagine
...beautiful maples that stood near the building. Standing upon the site and looking toward the north "Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There where a few torn shrubs the plan disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose." Then... | |
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