 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...  With the Poets: A Selection of English Poetry - Seite 115von Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 290 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 Seiten
...recollection of a grateful posterity."1 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold«...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There HOKOÜR comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall a while... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1835 - 280 Seiten
...constitutions, sunk into an early grave. How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest. When spring, with dewy fingers cold,...dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...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,...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY. STROPHE. O THOU, who sit'st a smiling bride By valour's armed and awful side, Gentlest... | |
 | George Lunt - 1836 - 36 Seiten
...as the inheritors of their glory, — How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,...sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod ! By spirit hands their knell is rung, — By forms unseen their dirge is sung, — There Honor comes, a... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 Seiten
...constitutions, sunk into an early grave. ' How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest. When spring, with dewy fingers cold,...dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; — And freedom shall... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 Seiten
...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...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there. The Pleasures of Imagination, by MARK AKENSIDE (1721-1770),... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 Seiten
...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...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there. The Pleasures of Imagination, by MARK AKENSIDE (1721—1770),... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 Seiten
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there. The Pleasures of Imagination, by MARK AKENSIDE (... | |
 | George Thompson - 1837 - 150 Seiten
...its Father in heaven. How sleep the good mho sink to rest, With all their country's wishes Llust! The spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the tarf that wraps their cJny, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 Seiten
...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...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell, a weeping hermit there." COLLINS. Again ; what a quantity of thought is here... | |
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