 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 rung;...  Elegant extracts in poetry - Página 790por Elegant extracts - 1816Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1817 - 732 páginas
...brave men who have sacrificed their lives in the Cause of Britain. " 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 bands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey,... | |
 | 1817 - 494 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 páginas
...latter, to excite sentiments of compassion in favour of those whn became a samfice to public justice. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 páginas
...I, O Fear, will dwell with thee .' 15 ODE. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...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 awhile... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 páginas
...sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ; When Spring, with dewy fmgers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746 l . How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...such scenes from every future view , ODE, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDOCXLVI. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rang, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that... | |
 | 1863 - 538 páginas
...immortality. Perhaps there was never anybody of men to whom Collins' beautiful ode is more applicable — " By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! " Begging, therefore, to be excused from any direct... | |
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 páginas
...from every future view. ODE, WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge... | |
 | Night watch - 1828 - 596 páginas
...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...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair... | |
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