And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall... The Midland readers and home lesson books - Page 9by Henry Major - 1873Full view - About this book
| 1900 - 608 pages
...clumsy ; so that though he recovers himself in the final line, the general effect is much damaged : ' Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array.... | |
| 1902 - 642 pages
...were almost forced from him despite his will by the spirit of poetry : ' Last noon beheld them lull of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay. The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms ; the day Battle's magnificently stern array... | |
| 1816 - 274 pages
...instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve...Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshaling in anus, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over tlie unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the...beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently-stern... | |
| 1817 - 590 pages
...nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. ' Last noon beheld them lull of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
| 1822 - 932 pages
...inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. Alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass, While now beneath them ; but above shall grow In its next...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low." These verses, so much admired and so popular, are a good example of emotions which are the means of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the...but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this liery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...e'er grieves, Over the uureturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass "YVJiich now beneath them , but above shall grow In its next...verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling 0ii the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon beheld them full... | |
| John Edgecombe Daniel - 1820 - 532 pages
...nature's tear-drops as they pass, Qrieving, if aught inanimate e'er griev«s, Over the unrotuvning brave — alas '. Ere evening to be trodden like the...grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In i is next verdure, when tins fiery mass Of living vuluur, rolling on the foe And. burning' with high... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pages
...trodden like the grass Winch now beneath them, but aliove shall grow In its next verdure, when this ßery mass Of living valour , rolling on the foe And burning with high hope , shall moulder cold and law. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
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