 | Mark Akenside, John Dyer - 1855 - 472 pages
...much sweeter tenderness bas Lyttleton ottered the same sentiment, in the monody on his wife : — " 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...on the ennobled mind bestow, Exceeds the vulgar joys that move Our gross desires, inelegant and low. 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... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...tender sorrow made, I now may give my burden' d heart relief, And pour forth all my stores of grief. 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...tell; for death has stopped 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... | |
 | Esther Charlotte A. Allen - 1869 - 526 pages
...and his lacerated feelings might have found apt expression in the touching lines of Lyttleton : — 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 Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...tell ; For Death has stopt that tnnctul tongue, Whose music could alone your wnrbling notes excel. * ! O Christians ! at your cross of hope A hopeless hand was clinging ! footsteps to descry ; Where oft we used to walk, Where oft in tender tiolk We saw the summer Sun go... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 pages
...satisfied the fastidious taste of Gray, the reader may not be unwilling to have transcribed : — " 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... | |
 | William George Fretton - 1879 - 398 pages
...who wander through these lovely and enchanting glades. One verse of which may be quoted here : — 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...on the ennobled mind bestow, Exceeds the vulgar joys that move Our gross desires, inelegant and low. 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... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1889 - 366 pages
...death five years afterwards gave him a theme for a monody which contained the following lines : — IN vain I look around O'er all the well-known ground, My Lucy's wonted footsteps t» 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... 
