 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 - Página 117por Edward Hughes - 1856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1830 - 736 páginas
...of honour's ground. " Here sleep the brave, who sunk to rest, By all their country's wishes btest: When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod." Tt is indeed (to pursue the fine strain of Collins) as " a weeping hermit," that Fancy must repair... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 páginas
...yields no urnaH gratification. When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...forms unseen their dirge is sung ! There HONOUR comes, af rilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall awhile repair To dwell... | |
 | Joseph Brown Ladd, W. B. Chittenden - 1832 - 252 páginas
...your slumbers in the dark house appointed for all living. " So sleep the brave who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest : When spring, with...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,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...tale. ODE TO THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...is 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,... | |
 | John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 páginas
...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...sweeter sod • Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There honor comes, a pilgrim... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1832 - 484 páginas
...reality : — « How sleep the hrave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! \Vhen Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their...sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. • By fairy-hands their knell is rnng, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 páginas
...ever interested my feelings more, nor could I help reciting aloud — " 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 will dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod." I think Collins... | |
 | 1832 - 510 páginas
...writing, is from Collins : two very exquisite stanzas undoubtedly :— ' 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 - 1833 - 348 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 páginas
...When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress o sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. " By...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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