 OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME OH! breathe not his name, — let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head.  The Ford family in Ireland - Page 2881845Full view - About this book
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...sweet boy, was given: to sparkle, bloom, and be exhaled to heaven. LORD BYRON A 1369 ON ROBERT EMMETT BREATHE not his name, let it sleep in the shade, where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid; O 55o Passages for Translation sad, silent and dark be the tears that... | |
 | 1865 - 408 pages
...light, Thy various tints unite, And form in heaven's sight One arch of peace ! OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 pages
...masters themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause at the song of their captive, and weep ! O breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew... | |
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - 1866 - 400 pages
...the place forcibly recalled to our mind the beautiful description given by Moore of Emmet's grave : " Oh, breathe not his name, let It sleep In the shade...silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grata o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it... | |
 | Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 pages
...presence of the tribunal whence he was FIRST LOVES. to receive the doom of death, are the following: "Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonor'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that... | |
 | E. Wadham - 1869 - 176 pages
...regard to pace ; where, as here, for instance, musically ruled, an elegy no longer appears a gallop. Oh breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night dew... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1869 - 222 pages
...AH breathe hot his name ! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonor'd his relics are laici : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, tho' in silence it weeps,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 pages
...Thomas Moore's lines, on the death of the same Robert Emmett, are in a like subdued strain : " 0 ! breathe not his name ; let it sleep in the shade,...silent and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1870 - 654 pages
...BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. Oh ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade AVhero cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...that glow, But in its light my soul can see Some feature of the Deity. O, BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. O, BREATHE not his name ; let it sleep in the shade Where...silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it... | |
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