How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung;... Elegant extracts in poetry - Pagina 790door Elegant extracts - 1816Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 pagina’s
...all their country's honors blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there." During the administration of Governor Caswell, the... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pagina’s
...THE BRAVE. WILLIAM COLLINS, bom 1720, died 1786. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all theii country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair... | |
| Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pagina’s
...all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their Imllow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pagina’s
...their country's wishes blest ; When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould; She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes a Pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 788 pagina’s
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. 19. VIRGINIU8, AS TRIBUNE, REFUSES THE APPEAL OF APPIUS CLATDITS. — Original Paraphraie from Licy.... | |
| James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 pagina’s
...their country's wishes blest ! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. ' " And there was another ode, by the same author, which, he said, he was also obliged to repeat, as... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pagina’s
...their country's wishes bless'd When Spring, with dewy finders cold, Returns to deck their ballow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...a while repair To dwell, a weeping hermit there." — COLLINS. Again, what a quantity of thought is here condensed in the compass of twelve lines, like... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 pagina’s
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When...By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor conies, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 802 pagina’s
...rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Ilcturns to deek their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which,... | |
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