 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
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...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 !... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English essays - 1911 - 444 pages
...Virgil, having been brought from Ispahan at a much later period. Whitaker's rru. note, quoted by Mtttord. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful Fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns. ICO, 11- Your epistle: .-I" Efistltfrom Ffarer/ctto T[homas] j4(shton\, Etl. In... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - Children in literature - 1922 - 426 pages
...in the Monody in memory of Lady Lyttleton (1747), echoes Hill's lines on his motherless little ones. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, John Scott, who in one year had lost not only... | |
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