 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
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 442 pages
...of rest after life's " fitful fever," lies the village graveyard. Here: " The sacred calm thatreigns around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease;...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace." In this retired spot reverent hands laid all that remained of gifted John Edwards. The voice, that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1891 - 192 pages
...To linger in the gloomy walks of Fate ; Hark ! how the sacred Calm, that broods around, Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...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 thro' the... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 pages
...To linger in the gloomy walks of Fate ; Hark ! how the sacred Calm, that broods around, Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...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 thro' the... | |
 | 1909 - 646 pages
...sequestered church-yard, where every influence breathes the message embodied in his matchless lines: Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around, Bids every...Romeo and Juliet. O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek I Is that not sentimental ? Give me my Romeo ; and when he shall... | |
 | 1913 - 556 pages
...with great improvement ; but he cancelled the following beautiful stanza from his Elegy : — " Hark ! how the sacred Calm that breathes around, Bids every...the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace." Byron's brain was far more fertile than critical, and he rewrote little ; but he did recast the last... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | Julien Adrien Hilaire Louis - 1894 - 308 pages
...absorbing silence which seems to transport one into regions of peace unknown, not of this world. Hark ! how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace. contemplation I could realise, if not explain, what had given rise in the mind of the contemplative... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 pages
...To linger in the gloomy walks of Fate ; Hark ! how the sacred Calm, that broods around, Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents...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 thro' the... | |
 | Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe - 1895 - 292 pages
...discarded six stanzas from the original draft, — among them this, written as the fourth stanza : " Hark, how the sacred calm that breathes around Bids every...from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace;" 46 this, from the reply of the " hoary-headed twain :" " Him have we seen the greenwood side along... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 478 pages
...idolize success; But more to Innocence their safety owe, Than Power and Genius e'er conspired to bless.] In still, small accents whispering from the ground A grateful earnest of eternal peace.] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool,... | |
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