 Alack, the change! In vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled. The church is larger than before, You reach it by a carriage entry: It holds three hundred people more,...  The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 140by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 pages
...I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled,— The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger...entry ; It holds three hundred people more, And pews nre fitted up for gentry. Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian.... | |
 | Beatrix F. Cresswell - Church buildings - 1912 - 266 pages
...cannot help thinking that it must have been of the new West Teignmouth church that he wrote the lines: The church is larger than before You reach it by a...entry It holds three hundred people more And pews have been set up for gentry. Lord Exmouth died at Teignmouth, but is buried at Christow, and after... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1913 - 1048 pages
...For haunts in which my boyhood trifled, — The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before...carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people more, Sit in the Vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...vain I look ¥or haunts in which my boyhood trifled; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled. The church is larger than...doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose voice is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid? Look down, And construe... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...began to quote Augustine. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled,— The church is larger than before ; You reach it by...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose style is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid t Look down, And construe on the slab before you,... | |
 | Society verse - 1922 - 392 pages
...vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled, The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled: The church is larger than...seat: you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, 271 Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...boyhood 90 Alack the change! For haunts i; trifled,— The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled. The church is larger than...carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people more, 95 And pews are fitted up for gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat: you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 848 pages
...vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I hey know There, Johiiian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose tone is very Ciceronian. Where is the old... | |
 | American periodicals - 1865 - 684 pages
...I look For hiiiiiits in which my boyhood trifled, The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger...entry ; It holds three hundred people more, And pews arc fitted up for gentry. " Sit in the Vicar's scat : you'll hear The doctrine of agentle^Johnian,... | |
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