 | 1923 - 1004 pagina’s
...him — a child of Nature — a bird in the bush was worth two in the hand. Then there is Webster's Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. The natural history is fantastic enough, but... | |
 | Owen Wister - 1972 - 276 pagina’s
...change or two I wrote them as deep as I could with my pencil upon a small board that he smoothed for me. "Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with flowers and leaves do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call to this funeral dole The ant,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pagina’s
...Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakspeare : — Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodiei of nnburicd men. Call unto his funcrnl dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
 | George Steiner - 1996 - 340 pagina’s
...given in pasture to birds of prey. But the famous dirge in Webster's The White Devil instructs us to Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Indeed, in Webster's invocation — and he... | |
 | Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence - 1997 - 262 pagina’s
...covers the bodies of two young children with leaves is expressed in John Webster's familiar lines: Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. (Hazlitt 1905, 2: 520) 41 V Christmas card with "Babes in the Wood" theme depicting robins and wrens.... | |
 | Carolyn V. Platt - 1998 - 296 pagina’s
...graveyard and battlefield. John Webster's eerie lines from The White Devil can raise a shiver even today: Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 pagina’s
...Marcello's body (her song is given in italics, her spoken words in roman): Call for the Robin- Red-rest and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral Dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
 | C J Ackerley - 2007 - 97 pagina’s
...Cornelia, and in V.iv Cornelia sings a dirge over Marcello 's dead body: Call for the robin-red breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
 | Thomas Rist - 2008 - 188 pagina’s
...robin red-breast and the wren' also recalled in Eliot's The Wasteland: Call for the robin red breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto this funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks, that shall... | |
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CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall... 
