 | Virgil - 1898 - 928 pages
...rites). English poetry sometimes has pomp in this sense ; as in Pope, Windsor Forest, w. 273. 2?4 : Oh, early lost ! what tears the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! 54. suis : see note on sua, iii. 469. 55. nunc, but now as it is, opposed to the supposition in w.... | |
 | Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1899 - 824 pages
...rites). English poetry sometimes has pomp in this sense ; as in Pope, Windsor Forest, w. 273, 274: Oh, early lost ! what tears the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! 54. suis : see note on sua, iii. 469. 55. nunc, but now as it is, opposed to the supposition in vv.... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...: Here his first lays majestic Denham sung; There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tongue. О early lost ! what tears the river shed, When the sad...drooping swans on ev'ry note expire, And on his willows hung each Musc s lyre. O wouldst thousingwhat heroes Windsor bore, What kings first breathed upon her... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 520 pages
...again : — " Here his first lays majestic Denham sung, There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tongue; O early lost, what tears the river shed When...pomp along his banks was led! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his 'Mllows hung each muse's lyre! " In the same poem he indulges the absurd... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - East End (London, England) - 1911 - 288 pages
...Chertsey and his body was borne by water to Whitehall, and Pope thus commemorates this event: — Oh, early lost ! what tears the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks were led." Nor must we forget that a greater than Cowley was brought in great state by water from Greenwich... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - London (England) - 1912 - 310 pages
...Chertsey and his body was borne by water to Whitehall, and Pope thus commemorates this event : — Oh, early lost ! what tears the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks were led." Nor must we forget that a greater than Cowley was brought in state by water from Greenwich,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Birds - 1913 - 454 pages
...— " Here his first lays majestic Dunham song, There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tonga*; O early lost, what tears the river shed When the sad...pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's >.yre! " In the same poem he indulges the absurd... | |
 | 1844 - 768 pages
...died Abraham Cowley. The body of the great poet was brought by water from Chertsey to Whitehall— Oh, early lost ! what tears the River shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! Pope. Evelyn was at his friend's funeral, and thus records the ceremony : " 3 Aug. 1667. — Went... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Venerable made: 270 Here his first Lays Majestick Denham sung; There the last Numbers flow'd from Cowley's Tongue. O early lost ! what Tears the River shed When...was led ? His drooping Swans on ev'ry Note expire, 275 And on his Willows hung each Muse's Lyre. Since Fate relentless stop'd their Heav'nly Voice, No... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...venerable made: 270 Here his first lays majestic DENHAM sung; There the last numbers flowed from COWLEY'S tongue. O early lost! what tears the river shed, When...pomp along his banks was led? His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre. Since fate relendess stopped their heavenly... | |
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O early lost ! what tears the river shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on ev'ry note expire, 275 And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. 
