CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall... Spring-tide: Or, The Angler and His Friends - Page 140by John Yonge Akerman - 1850 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1890 - 332 pages
...nonny, nonny : hey nonny, nonny. XLV. JOHN WEBSTER. CORNELIA'S SONG. CALL for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...the Wood ; also Webster's Vittoria Corombona (The White Devil) — • ' Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover. And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of nnburied men.' 257-260. The hare . . . . the garden seeks.... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1893 - 392 pages
...were so o'ercharg'd with water. Funeral Dirge for MARCELLO. [His MOTHER sings it. Call for the roliin -red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pages
...knell : Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. VIA LAND DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburicd men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pages
...knell : Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. VI. A LAND DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 pages
...bind me, JOHN WEBSTER, Vittoria Carombona, 1612, acted 1607-8. DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 430 pages
...behind me. JOHN WEBSTER, Vittoria Corombona, 1612, acted 1607-8. DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1895 - 438 pages
...creation returns upon itself, and begins a new cycle. cccxin A LAND DIRGE CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole 1 The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1895 - 424 pages
...bind me, JOHN WEBSTER, Vittoria Corombona, 1612, acted 1607-8. DIRGE. \ CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
| 1923 - 748 pages
...Consigne to thee, and come to dust. . . . WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 282 ALANDDIRGE CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
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