 | 1854 - 888 pages
...room, Nor hallowed dirge be muttered o'er thy tomb I Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dressed And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. There...silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy relies made. Let not the reader smile, if, in this connection, we introduce dainty children. There... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...Nor hallowed dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb 1 Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dressed, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There...silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy relies made. So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...thy ashes grace, Nor polish 'd marble emulate thy face! What though no sacred earth allow thee room, ure. Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike through relies made. So, peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...marble emulate thy face? What though no sacred earth allow thee room, Nor hallow'd dirge be muttered o'er thy tomb? Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers...silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy reliques made. So , peaceful rests , without a stone , a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 1120 pages
...room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb : Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There...silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy reliques made. So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1921 - 626 pages
...lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow. There the first roses of thy year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings...a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fam«. How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 pages
...Nor halJowed dirge be muttered o'er thy tomb ? Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dressed, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There...bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow.* Is not the stock scenery of the romantics, the scenery of Gray's Elegy, anticipated in the line : Where... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...(Grave.) PLAUTUS— Casina. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 11. Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dressed, lphin's anchor forged; 'tis at a white heat now: The billows ceased, the flames POPE — Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady. L. 65. (See also HALLECK) 12 The grave unites; where e'en the... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 524 pages
...Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ? Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dress 'd, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There...name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame. How lov'd, how honour 'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 pages
...room, Nor hallow'd dirge be muttered o'er thy tomb? Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There...silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made," is a fine typical example of Pope's entirely serious manner. The Eloisa to Abelard... | |
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And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy relics made. 
