 Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from...  Young. Churchill. Lloyd. Falconer. Thomson - Page 207by Samuel Johnson - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...reign. 15 Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, 20 The swallow twittering from the straw-built... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...secret bow'r, Molest her ancient, solitary reign. Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 372 pages
...reign: 4. Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 5. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 950 pages
...simplicity of life, strength of family feeling, or persistence of a family in one locality is connoted <each in his narrow cell forever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep — Gray) <think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity! — JQ Adams) Forebear... | |
 | Michael Stanislawski - 1988 - 284 pages
...Zhukovsky had reproduced in his mellifluous Russian): Beneath those ruggled elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. . . . Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,... | |
 | Brian Short - 1992 - 260 pages
...secret bow'r. Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf "in many a mould'ring heap. Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn.... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...secret bow'r. Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap. Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing mom.... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 pages
...secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, is The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. THOMAS GRAY (1716-71) Curfew - bell rung... | |
 | Donald Hall - 1997 - 290 pages
...field at Stoke Poges that Thomas Gray celebrated: Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, Each...narrow cell forever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The eighteenth century in England produced a whole school of graveyard poets, Gray the... | |
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