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" What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. "
Double dealer - Page 123
1921
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Anthology of English Poetry: Beowulf to Kipling

Robert Naylor Whiteford - English poetry - 1903 - 464 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest ? 35 What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets forever more Will silent be ; and not a...
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English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by ...

Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1903 - 692 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the sjcies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest ? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a...
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From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson

Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 666 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a...
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The Masters of English Literature

Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 458 pages
...barest phrase presents a whole way of living, as in the Ode on a Grecian Urn, when he questions : " Who are these coming to the sacrifice ? " What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk this pious morn ? Or again, as he " listens...
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English Literature An Illustrated record in Eight Volumes Volume IV-Part 1 ...

Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul...
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Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volume 5

Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or seashore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets forevermore Will silent be; and not a soul...
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Literary Reviews and Criticisms

Prosser Hall Frye - Literature - 1908 - 334 pages
...fitly, which contributes to make Keats's Grecian Urn what it is — classic poetry in the noblest sense. What little town by river or sea-shore Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? Or to take an example from Dryden himself: But Shakespeare's magic could...
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The Pageant of English Poetry

Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest ? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a...
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The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn ? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul...
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A Poet's Anthology of Poems

Alfred Noyes - English poetry - 1911 - 446 pages
...priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest ? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be ; and not a soul...
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