 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 196 pages
...present life." SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR. WEST. IN vain to me tbe smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; Or checiTnl fields resume their green attire : These cars, alas! for other notes repine, A different object... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...-»" In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phœbus lifts his gulden fire, The bird* in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields...attire ; These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, and accidents of life can mille its serenity. Whatever wound is inflicted, the balm is always at hand... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 824 pages
...experiences a vacancy, which inclines us to exclaim with the poet, when he had lost an intimate friend,— " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his gulden are, The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...mankind, Then welcome share the friendly Groves of Wrest. EDWARDS. VOL. III. UU ffin the Deail) of IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And ill my breast the" imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...compingendum," &c. The former of which is ridiculous ; the latter insipid. SONNET DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, 5 A different object do these eyes require : My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire s Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phosbus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their am'rous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green...anguish melts no heart but mine,' And in my breast th* imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings... | |
 | University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...into Greek or Latin elegiac verses : In vain to me the smiling mornings shine And redd'ning Phœbus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; The cheerful fields resume their green attire ; These ears alas for other notes repine, A different... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...lonely, dull, and friendless solitude. 131 132 THOMAS GRAY. ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST. IN' vain 1o me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus...The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; Or chearful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...GRAY. ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST. IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine. And reddening Phosbus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join ; : Or chearful fields resume their green attire : . These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different... | |
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In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these... 
