 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
 | John Keese - 1840 - 300 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 ; —...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 Keese - 1840 - 304 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 ; —...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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1840 - 342 pages
...deem ! and e'en 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." BRYAHT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore ? — Earth's mightiest... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 350 pages
...deem ! and e'en 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... | |
 | John Keese - 1840 - 302 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-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - 1841 - 250 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... | |
 | 1840 - 452 pages
...eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor coutdst 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 ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...as it does them, and he goes to it as to his home. Bryant, with equal truth and beauty, says — " Not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rook-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...| 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,...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... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 336 pages
...deem ! and e'en 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... | |
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