 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1902 - 584 pages
...to the bourn Where, in thy presence, I shall cease to mourn. Btmd. By Simmias of Thebes (2) :— OK SOPHOCLES. Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade...Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid. Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine. Thus shall thy lasting... | |
 | Sophocles - 1906 - 118 pages
...quoted in the admirable version given by an anonymous translator in Addison's Spectator ' : Winde, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid : Sweet ivy, winde thy boughs and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustring vine : Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | Henry Pynchon Robinson - 1907 - 380 pages
...gentle evergreen, to form a shade About the tomb where Sophocles is laid : Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering...beauties hung Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung. We find colloquies carried on in stately courtesy between the tenants of sepulchres and passers-by.... | |
 | Larue Van Hook - 1923 - 388 pages
...a wreath of beauty, meet To deck my Heliodora's tresses sweet. — GOLDWIN SMITH. SIMMIAS OF THEBES Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid; Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine: Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | Kentucky Historical Society - 1913 - 400 pages
...of Thebes wrote the following on the tomb of Sophocles: These lines are, of course, a translation: "Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles Is laid. Sweet Ivy wind thy houghs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine. Then shall thy lasting... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
...laid: Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine; Thus will thy lasting leaves, with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung, Whose soul, exalted like a god of wit, Among the Muses and the Graces writ. Beautifully done—yet... | |
 | 1840 - 428 pages
...written by Simouides, proves that such a custon of honoring the illustrious dead then existed : — " Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade, Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid, Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : So shall thy 'asting leaves,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pages
...monumental inscriptions remaining. This is one. "UT. QUOTANNIS. ROSAS. AD. MONUMENTUM. EJU8. DEFFERANT." " Wind gentle evergreen to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid. Sweet 'vy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine ; Thus will thy lasting... | |
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Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays... 
