| Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...grave, " Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms; Where light-heeled...and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon, (so fame reports), Embody 'd, thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree, is thine."... | |
| 1835 - 466 pages
...Well do 1 know thee by thy trusty yew. Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell •Midst sknlls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...visionary shades. Beneath the wan. cold moon, (so fame reports, Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds.) No other merriment, dull tree ! is thme.... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 686 pages
...— " Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew ; Cheerless unsocial plant, that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (so fame reporte), Embodied thick, perform their mystic rounds: No other merriment, dull tree, U thine."... | |
| Hugh MacDonald - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1860 - 472 pages
...intermingled with its funereal foliage. '' Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports), Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds: No other merriment, dull tree, is... | |
| John Robert Kippax - Epitaphs - 1877 - 238 pages
...COPYRIGHT, 1876, by JOHN R. KIPPAX. TO ALL WHO E'ER IN MUSING, HAVE IN FACT OR FANCY STROLLEO, " MIDST SKULLS AND COFFINS, EPITAPHS AND WORMS ; WHERE LIGHT-HEELED GHOSTS AND VISIONARY SHADES, j ; i PERFORM THEIR MYSTIC ROUNDS," IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. COKTEKTS. FAUX INTRODUCTION 9 EPITAPHS... | |
| W. F. March Phillipps - Elegiac poetry - 1879 - 384 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms, Where light-heeled...ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon, as fame reports, Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds ; No other merriment, dull tree, is thine.... | |
| George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 256 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms, Where light-heeled...ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon, as fame reports, Embodied thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree ! is thine.... | |
| Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty Yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms : Where light-heeled ghosts, and visionary shades, 25 Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds, No other... | |
| Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty Yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms : Where light-heeled ghosts, and visionary shades, 25 Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds, No other... | |
| William Dallimore - Box - 1908 - 418 pages
...— " Well do I know thee by thy trusty Yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell, Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports), Embody'd thick perform their mystic rounds No other merriment, dull tree is thine."... | |
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