 Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary...  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 290by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mme. Charlotte Fiske (Bates) Rogé - 1832 - 1022 pages
...restingplace Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbed and aucient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst Ihoa wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighly sepulchre! The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun— the vales, Stretching in pensive... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 890 pages
...lover of poetry and truth. " The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone —...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | 1834 - 402 pages
...his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...upon. The oak Shall send hii roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pages
...resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 286 pages
...swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | 1836 - 362 pages
...upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould . Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 346 pages
...deem I and e'ep the tears they wake Shall then be blest, for that high nature's sake. THE DEPARTED. " Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore ? — Earth's mightiest... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 pages
...swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
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