| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a nil!, Sat upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head, While stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had... | |
| English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...wo fidj flitt TOufen bauten ein Slfol ; So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head; While stray'd my eyes o'er To\vy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation... | |
| Country life - 1856 - 482 pages
...shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sat upon a flowery bed. With my hand beneath my head, While stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had... | |
| England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...silent shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head; While strayed my eyes o'er Towy's flood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had her... | |
| William Samuel - 1868 - 216 pages
...silent shade For the modest Muses made ; So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head ; While strayed my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill,... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...silent shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head; While stray'd my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1878 - 1116 pages
...shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sat e, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ; The thoug Towy'e flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 642 pages
...silent shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head ; While strayed my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead, and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 636 pages
...silent shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sate upon a flowery bed, With my hand beneath my head ; While strayed my eyes o'er Towy's flood, Over mead, and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill,... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...shade, For the modest Muses made, So oft I have, the evening still, At the fountain of a rill, Sat '٨ z Towy's flood, Over mead and over wood, From house to house, from hill to hill, Till Contemplation had... | |
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