 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 - Página 790por Elegant extracts - 1816Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 páginas
...sleep the brave, who gink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingen cold, Returns — to deck their hallow'd mould, She...trod : By Fairy hands — their knell is rung, By forme unseen — their dirge is sung ; There — Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To of«»the turf, that... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO OUR ELDEST HEIR. — Mrs. Henry Coleridge. DEEM... | |
 | 1847 - 454 páginas
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." Here we have something beside mere rhyme. The stanzas... | |
 | William Collins - 1848 - 158 páginas
...curtain'd close such scene from ev'ry future ODE WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than ever Fancy's feet have trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms...shall a while repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." What a quantity of thought is here condensed in the compass of twelve lines, like a cluster of rock... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 páginas
...gentlest influence own, ODE, WRITTEN Df THE BEGINNING OP THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 páginas
...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 gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 páginas
...Laeta parum frons est ; hanc tegat apta salix. The Sleep of the Brave. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 páginas
...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...their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...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 gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall nwhile repair,... | |
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