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... Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 159by Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 772 pagesFull view - About this book
| Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pages
...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 feet...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
| George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...country's wishes blessed! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...countiy'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 feet...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 498 pages
...after his defeat 1 CHAPTER VI. From the Retreat of Xerxes out of Greece to the Battle of My c ale* There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf...repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. 1. Ta'clt, a. silent, implied though not expressed. 11, He'lots, *. slaves. 15. Magnanim'ity, *. greatness... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, derstanding, taste, That lift« him into life, and...a heart To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs Ode to Emdny. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May nope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter w>d, iar manners. He was the life and soul of every private...upon it. The taste and thought of his philosophical then-. Ode ta Evening. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod By fairy hands their knell it rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY. Strophe. O THOU ! who sitt'st a smiling briiie, By Valour's arm'd and awful side, Gentlest... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 328 pages
...country's wishes hlest ! When Spring, oith dewy fingers cold, Returns 1o deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, ., pilgrim gray, To hless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...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 feet...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair... | |
| 1844 - 504 pages
...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...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung, There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
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