 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...Gray, in his beautiful " Elegy in a Country Churcli Yard," expresses himself in the following manner : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark ! how the sacred calm that hreathes around Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight , And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. lieneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...holds ; Save where the beetle wheels 'his Sroning flight, And drowsy tinkliugs lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...secret bower, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath'those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds: Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...drowsy tinkliijgs lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, Tlie moping owl docs yourselves flue for— a place in her breast : You put on your colours to pleasure her eye, To be pl Beneath those nigged elms, that yew-tree's shade, * Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...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...Molest her ancient, solitary reign. 4. Beneath those nigged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, 5. The breezy... | |
 | 1832 - 606 pages
...living being was to*be seen. No vocal sound \v as to be heard, " Save, that from yonder ivy -mantled tower. The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her fav'rite bo\jer, Molest her ancient solitary reign." All the tales of fairies, and hobgoblins, and... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...stillness holds ; •; Save •n'here the beelle wheels his droning flight, , , •{ And drowsy tinkl^ngs lull the distant folds; — • . • 3. Save that,...moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,'1' Molest her ancient, solitary reign. • ' 4. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,... | |
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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 the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to... 
