 Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents whispering from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace.  The Sewanee Review - Page 4261909Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate: Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. , No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room , But through... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? Hark I how the sacred calm, that breathes around,...from the ground* A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room ; But through... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate: Hark! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room ; But through... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around. Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room; But through... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every tierce tumultuous passion cease; In still small accents whispering...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'riug heap,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pages
...Molest her ancient solitary reign. Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every tierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every...from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room ; But through... | |
 | William Benbow - 1823 - 336 pages
...weary are at rest," again casting our eyes upon the lowly sod, where uttered with awe — , Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. But alas, ' the wicked cease not from troubling' even when life is extinct, and the grave must be robbed... | |
 | Tobias Merton - 1824 - 488 pages
...artless tale relate, By night, and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate. Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around. Bids every...the ground, . . A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room ; But through... | |
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