 I see the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains! Enough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still...  Poetry, a lecture - Page 12by Frederick Hinde - 1858Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...true. Led by pale ghosts, I enter death's dark gate. I hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe; I sec the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams...creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields! ye cheerful plains! Enough lor me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...Led by pale ghosts, I enter death's dark gate, And bill the realms of light and life adieu. I heaj- the helpless wail, the shriek of woe ; I see the muddy...creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...L'. • 1 hy pale ghosts, I eater death's dark gate, And hid the realms of light and lite adien. 1 hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe, I see the...dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep helow, Where mortals visit and return no more. Farewell, ye hlooming fields, ye cheerful plain* ! Enough... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...are true. Led by pale ghosts, I enter death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu. I hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe ; I see...creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...are true. Led by pale ghosts, I enter death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu I I hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe ; I see...creep below., Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 354 pages
...are true. Led by pale ghosts, I enter death-s dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu ! I hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe ; I see...dreary shore. The sluggish streams that slowly creep helow, . Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...are true : Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu. I hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe ; I see the mnddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - Poetry - 1810 - 450 pages
...dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu. " I HEAR the helpless wail, the shriek of wo ; I see the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish...creep below, Which mortals visit and return no more. " FAREWELL, ye blooming fields'! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound,... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...are true; Led by pale ghosts, I enter death's dark gate, And bid the realms of life and light adieu. I hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe; I see...creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains! Enough for me the church-yard's lonely mound, Where... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...gate. And bid the realms of light and life adieu ! 1 hear the helpless wail, the shriek of woe; I sec the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams...creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields I ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, Where... | |
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