 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...story tell ; For Death has stopt that tuneful tongue, Whose music could alone your warbling notes excel In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer Sun go... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...tell ; For death has stopp'd that tuneful tongue, Whose music could alone your warbling notes excel. In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ! Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | 1845 - 694 pages
...proportioned to the occasion. The following stanza was greatly admired by the critics of the day : — ' In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground. My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry, Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...was " excessively pleased with the nature, sorrow, and tenderness " of the following stanza : — " In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry, Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...life's and glory's freshest bloom, Death came remorseless on, and sunk her to the tomb. * * * • * In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer suu go... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...spruce and jocund spring : The Graces and the rosy-bosomed hours. Thither all their beauties bring : TL> In vain I look around, O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we us'd to walk, Whore oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...this occasion produced, are considered by many the most successful of his poetical efforts:— MONODY. In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go down... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...loved his friends — forgive this gushing tear: Alas ! I feel I am no actor here. [From the Monody.] In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer eun go... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...tell ; For Death hath stopp'd that tuneful tongue, Whose music could alone your warbling notes excel. In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer Sun go... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 512 pages
...If it were all like the fourth stauza, I should be excessively pleased." — GRAY to Walpole (nd). In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground. My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ! Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer sun go... | |
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In vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps to descry ; Where oft we us'd to walk, Where oft in tender talk We saw the summer Sun go down the sky... 
