 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...distant spires, ye antique towers. Ah ! happy hills ! ah pleasing sh'nde ! Ah I fields heloY'd in vain 1 A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss hestow. t Represented in the view nnder the church window to the left. The legend is as follows. In... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...hoary Thames along His silver winding way : Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth.f... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...hills! ah, pleasing shade I Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd r A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth... | |
 | 1824 - 450 pages
...ye antique towers, That crown the waf:ry glade ! 0 happy hill, O pleasing shade, O fields, belov'.l in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain, 1 feel the gales that from you blow A momentary bliss bestow. WEST SIDE. Hard by yon wood, now smiling... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pages
...As I walked through the different lecture rooms, I often thought of St. Mary's College, Baltimore, " where once my careless childhood stray'd, a stranger yet to pain." I contrasted the awful grandeur and solemn pomp of this * The gates of the University were shut against... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...hoary Thames along His silver winding way. All, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov'd in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd,...gales, that from ye blow,. A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth,... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pages
...of Croga. Mag.) MY SCHOOL-BOY SCENES. Ah ! happy hills, ah ! pleasing shade, Ah ! fields beloved iu vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A...gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving forth their gladsome wing ; My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 384 pages
...seems almost to unhinge her understanding." CHAPTER XXVI. Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shades ! All , fields beloved in vain ! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, , A stranger yet to pain. Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College. IT is not by corporeal wants and infirmities only that men... | |
 | John Timbs - 1823 - 330 pages
...and watching their progress to maturity : Ah ! happy hills, ah ! pleasing shade-r Ah! fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain. GRAY. At that period, too, I admired the enchanting scenery of this picturesque country ; but it was... | |
 | 1823 - 836 pages
...value the approbation and support of youth, like the poet who revisits the scenes of his early life : ' I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow ; As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth ; And, redolent of joy and... | |
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A stranger yet to pain ? I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. 
