Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 162
edited by - 1779
Full view - About this book

Travels After the Peace of Amiens: Through Parts of France ..., Volume 2

John Gustavus Lemaistre - Europe - 1806 - 498 pages
...dread repose. , * Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene. Shades ev'ry flow'v, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods." As to the places where we stopped. — -We found a decent inn the first night, where...
Full view - About this book

Polyanthos, Volume 1

1806 - 312 pages
...dread repose ; " Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, " Shades every flower and darkensevery green, " Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, " And breathes a browner horrouf o'er ' the woods." FRIENDSHIP. HUDIBRAS beautifully tells us, that a sin* cere friend is "...
Full view - About this book

The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flow'r, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes » browner horror on the woods. 17O Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flow'r, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And hreathes a hrowner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey I Death, only death, can...
Full view - About this book

Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose ; Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower and darkens every green. Deepens...murmur of the falling floods, . And breathes a browner honor on the woods. Yet here tor ever, ever must I stay; Sad proof how well a lover can obey! Death,...
Full view - About this book

Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flow'r, and darkens every green. Deepens the murmur of the...floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! Death, only death, can...
Full view - About this book

The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 2

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green,,. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods , And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey ! • Death, only death,...
Full view - About this book

A Series of Letters Between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss ..., Volume 4

Elizabeth Carter - 1809 - 414 pages
...every walk, and .. ;• i ' i . - r • " round her throws A death like silence, and a dread repose, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror o'er the woods." The whole scenery is however admirably adapted to the solemn ruins of Fountain Abbey,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF