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... Select specimens of English poetry - 117. oldalszerző: Edward Hughes - 1856Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 oldal
...such scenes from every future view , ODE, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDOCXLVI. 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 hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
| James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 oldal
...pathos with fancy, grandeur with simplicity, and romance with reality: " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes* a pilgrim... | |
| James Montgomery - 1826 - 464 oldal
...romance with reality: — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes bleat ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By' fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim... | |
| 1863 - 538 oldal
...applicable — " By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! " Begging, therefore, to be excused from any direct response to the sentiment, I will ask your permission... | |
| William Collins - 1827 - 234 oldal
...with dewy fingers cold. Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their...pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 10 And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! ODE TO MERCY. STROPHE. O THOU,... | |
| William Collins - 1827 - 234 oldal
...from every future view. ODE, WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746. 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 hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
| Night watch - 1828 - 596 oldal
...grave when the earth was crumbled over his son's coffin." CHAPTER VII. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When...awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. " THE burial of my poor shipmate being finished, we proceeded towards the boat, and on our way met... | |
| William Collins - 1828 - 104 oldal
...ode, and this turn of it.• When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is snng ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey. To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall... | |
| William Collins - 1828 - 108 oldal
...deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. Hy Fairy hands their knell 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 a-while repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
| William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - 1830 - 234 oldal
...their country's wishes bless'd ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY. STROPHE. O THOU, who sitst a smiling... | |
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