 The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull...  Poems - Sida 239efter Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 277 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 sidor
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his (Irony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as wand'ring near the secret bow'r, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 sidor
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark! how the sacred calm... | |
 | 1822 - 418 sidor
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sidor
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 sidor
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinkHngs lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 sidor
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; 3 Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such, as, wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. 4 Beneath those rugged... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 298 sidor
...stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to tbe moon complain Of such as wand'ring near her secret bow'r Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1847 - 430 sidor
...the circumstance being made to the authorities and the tax paid. A MORNING'S DRIVE FROM UPTON PARK. From yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her antient solitary reign. , Beneath those rugged... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 sidor
...stillness holds ; Save whore the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath these rugged... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 sidor
...sc. 2. And so Collins, in his Ode to Evening: " Or where the beetle winds His small, but sullen horn; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r, The moping owl does to the moon complain ic Of such as, wand'ring near her seeret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath... | |
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