| 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...good ; Fair 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... | |
| 1877 - 506 pages
...and beauty, says — " Not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down...good, Fair 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... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...pierce thy mould. | Yet not to thy eternal resting-place, | Shalt thou retire alone, — | nor couldst thou wish' | Couch more magnificent. | Thou shalt...Fair 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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 424 pages
...eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earlh — the wise, Ihe good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages pasl, All in one mighty sepulchre.... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 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...good, Fair 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... | |
| 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...good, Fair 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarehs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers, of ages past, All in one mighty sepulehre. — The hills R'H'k-ribb'd. and ancient as the sun. — the vales stretohins... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down...good, Fair 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... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down...the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, AH in one mighty sepulchre. 5. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching... | |
| 1868 - 300 pages
...swain Turns with his share and treads upon. Yet not to thy dark resting-place Shalt thou retire alone. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers, of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. So shalt thou rest ; and what if thou withdraw, Unheeded by the living, and... | |
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