In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry. Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer's sun go down the sky ; Nor by yon fountain's side, Nor where its waters glide Along the... Bell's Edition - Page 38by John Bell - 1782Full view - About this book
| George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky; Nor by yon fountain's side, No more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy, But the sad sacred earth where her dear relics lie.... | |
| Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...George, Lord Lyttelton, iu a monody on the death of his wifr, aya of their happy social intercourse : Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky. And Rogers in his " Human Life :" How oft from grove to grove, from seat to seat, With thue conversing... | |
| Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...George, Lord Lyttelton, in a monody on the death of his wife, says of their happy social intercourse : Where oft we us'd to walk. Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky. And Rogers in his " Human Life :" How oft from grove to grove, from seat to seat, With thco conversing... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky; Nor by yon fountain's side, No more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy, But the sad sacred earth where her dear relics lie.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...fool I nm no actor liere. From the -Monody. Where oft wo used to walk, Where oft in tender talk tt'c saw the summer sun go down the sky; Nor by yon fountain's...side, Nor where its waters glide Along the valley, cmi she now 1m found : In aNthe wide-stretched prospect's ample bound, No more my mournful eye Can... | |
| English wit and humor - 1889 - 366 pages
...look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps t» descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky ; Nor l>y yon fountain's side, Nor where its waters glide Along the valley, can she now be found : In all... | |
| William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 528 pages
...look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ! Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky. 1 Memoirs, p. 25. " Letter to \Vharton, 301h Nov. 1747, and to Walpole, letter without date in 1 747.... | |
| Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1922 - 184 pages
...expressed. In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry, Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky. We were the happiest pair of human kind. The rolling year its varying course perform'd, And back return'd... | |
| Eric Partridge - English poetry - 1924 - 284 pages
...lines : In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry, Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down the sky. In 1753, Richard Gifford published anonf mously his "Contemplation", which contained some pleasant... | |
| John Drinkwater - English literature - 1926 - 306 pages
...in 1747: In vain I look around O'er all the well-known Ground My Lucy's wonted Footsteps to descry : Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender Talk We saw the Summer Sun go down the Sky. Heraclitus, translation or rendering though it is, becomes a perfect English lyric, and while some... | |
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