Then in her bosom they found them a grave. Cover them over — yes, cover them over — Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover : Press to your hearts these dead heroes of ours. And cover them over with beautiful flowers. Farm Legends - Page 91by Will Carleton - 1887 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 pages
...came. Cover them over — yes, cover them over — Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover: Kiss in your hearts these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. 8. Cover the hands that are resting, half tried, Crossed on the bosom, or low by the side; Hands to... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1886 - 746 pages
...lover : Rough were the paths of those heroes of ours — Now cover them over with beautiful flowers. Cover the hearts that have beaten so high, Beaten...the pain and the life-bearing tide ; Fighting the swift -sweeping phantom of Death, Easing the dying man's fluttering breath ; Then, when the strife... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1886 - 752 pages
...Cover them over — yes, cover them over — Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover : Kiss in your hearts these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. Cover the hands that are resting, half-tried, Crossed on the bosom, or low by the side : Hands to you,... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...Cover them over — yes, cover them over — Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover: Clasp in your hearts these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. Like other young authors, Will Carleton was desirous of seeing his poems in book form. He wrote to... | |
| John Hill Aughey - 1888 - 688 pages
...will, Now they are lying all pulseless and still; Once they were glowing with friendship and love, j Now the great souls have gone soaring above. Bravely...with beautiful flowers. One there is, sleeping, in youder low tomb, Worthy the brightest of flowers that bloom. Weakness of vwmauhood's life was her part;... | |
| Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 pages
...over, — yes, cover them over, — Parent aud husband aud brother and lover ; Crown in your heart these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. Cover the thousands that sleep far away, — Sleep where their friends cannot find them to-day ; They... | |
| James H. Bryant - 1892 - 244 pages
...over, — yes, cover them over, — Parent and husband and brother and lover ; Crown in your heart these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. — Carleton. Reputation is, or should be, the result of character. Character is the sum of individual... | |
| Robert Ford - 1897 - 340 pages
...them over — yes, cover them over — Parent and husband, and brother, and lover. Crown in your heart these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers." Other short poems from his pen appeared in the newspapers, but it was not, as has already been said,... | |
| William Caswell Jones - 1897 - 368 pages
...over — yes, cover them over — Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover : Crown in your heart these dead heroes Of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. Will Carlelon— "Cover Them Over." EXAMPLE (2). Weary way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart, Traveling... | |
| Bryant & Stratton Commercial School (Boston, Mass.) - 1902 - 242 pages
...over, — yes, cover them over, — Parent and husband and brother and lover ; Crown in your heart these dead heroes of ours, And cover them over with beautiful flowers. — Carleton. Reputation is, or should be, the result of character. Character is the sum of individual... | |
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