 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 - Page 117by Edward Hughes - 1856Full view - About this book
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...rest, By all their country's wishes blessed! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod...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 - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...their 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...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... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every sod beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. By 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. Wards by T. Campbell ; tasl verse by Culliim. Thit Glee... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 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
...to Schiraz' walls he bent his way. OJe Written in the Геаг 174f>. How sleep the brave who sink ant nectar from their cups of gold. Ode to Emdny. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May nope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...in a loftier sense than the bard intended, the memorable words — " Here sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...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,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...their 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...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 - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...their country's wishes blest 1 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! (When Spring, wiih 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 their knell it rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf... | |
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