 And while meridian fervours beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat; But chief, when evening scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine.  The Quarterly Review - Page 1641862Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...meridian fervors beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat; But chief, when evening scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage, and swain; Plain Innocence, in white array'd,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...merid1an fervors beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat; But chief, when evening scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage, and swain; Plain Innocence, in white array'd,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...meridian fervours beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat : But chief when evening scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage and swain : Plain Innocence, in white array'd,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...meridian fervours beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat: But chief when evening scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage and swain; Plain Innocence, in white array'd.... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 442 pages
...balmy breath of morn, Just as the dew-bent rose is born. But chief when evening scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine." THOMSON. EMILY's injunctions to Annette to be silent on the subject of her terror were ineffectual,... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat : But chief, when evening scenes decay, And the faint landskip swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage, and swain; 3 Plain innocence in white array'd,... | |
 | Poetry - 1808 - 496 pages
...meridian fervours beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat : But chief, when ev'ning scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage and swain ; Plain Innocence, in white array... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat; But chief, when evening scenes decay, And the faint landskip swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage, and swain ; Plain innocence in white array'd,... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...beat, Tuiue is the woodland dumb retreat, But chief, when evening scenes decay, And the taint landskip swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage, and swain; Plain Innocence in white array'd,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...meridian fervors beat, Thine is the woodland dumb retreat; But chief, when evening scenes decay, And the faint landscape swims away, Thine is the doubtful soft decline, And that best hour of musing thine. Descending angels bless thy train, The virtues of the sage and swain; Plain innocence in white array'd,... | |
| |
