 But thofe, the gentleft and the beft, Whofe holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart enliven and improve. The conjugal, and the maternal love. VI. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns. Were wont to trip along thefe verdant lawns By  A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Page 68edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 438 pages
...one of three children, two of them girls, apostrophized by the bereaved poet in the Monody : — " Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide ? Ah ! where... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...No more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy, But the sad »acred earth where her dear relio lie. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns, By your delighted mother's side : Who now your infant steps shall guide ! Ah !... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...wisdom trod, And banish'd every passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart...enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns Who now... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1856 - 454 pages
...of three children, two of them girls, apostrophized by the bereaved poet in the Monody : — •• Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide ? Ah ! where... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...Nor more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy, But the sad sacred earth where her dear relics lie. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns, By your delighted mother's side ; Who now your infant steps shall guide 1 Ah!... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...No more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy, But the sad sacred earth, where her dear relics lie. Sweet babes ! who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By their delighted mother's side, Who now their infant steps shall guide ? Ah!... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...No more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy, "But the sad sacred earth where her dear relics lie. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side: Who now your infant steps shall guide? Ah! where... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1860 - 438 pages
...one of three children, two of them girls, apostrophized by the bereaved poet in the Monody : — ** Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns Were wont to trip along those verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide ? Ah ! where... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 448 pages
...one of three children, two of them girls, apostrophized by the bereeyed poet in the Monody: — •* Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide ? Ah ! where... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1871 - 200 pages
...No more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy, But the sad sacred earth, where her dear relics lie. Sweet babes ! who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By their delighted mother's side, Who now their infant steps shall guide ? Ah !... | |
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