 How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung,...  The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 169edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pages
...Laeta parum frons est ; hanc tegat apta salix. The Sleep of the Brave. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...THE BRAVE. WILLIAM COLLINS, bom 1720, died 1786. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all theii country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND. HBSUY FIELDING AND HICHARD LEVERIDGE. WHEN mighty roast beef was the... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pages
...their country's wishes blest ; When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould; She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." The Dirge in Cymbeline is highly poetical, — " To fair Fidelle's grassy tomb Soft maids and village... | |
 | Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their Imllow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." COLLINS. ONE evening as Mr. Maclandreth was returning from C , with his head full of projects, arid... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor conies, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 788 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd! When Spring, with dewy lingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Honor, Thomas Campbell - 1856 - 108 pages
...six hundred ! 35 ON THE DEATH OF THE BRAVE. AN ODE. BY WILLIAM COLLINS. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When...awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. 37 THE JOY-BELL AND THE REQUIEM. BY CHARLES MACK.AY. I. RING the joy-bells, chime on chime ! Sound... | |
 | Honor - 1856 - 94 pages
...Brigade, Noble six hundred ! ON THE DEATH OF THE BRAVE. BY WILLIAM COLLINS. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When...awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. THE JOY-BELL AND THE REQUIEM. BY CHARLES MACKAY. I. RING the joy-bells, chime on chime ! Sound the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...thy simple state! Confirm the tales her sons relate! ODE TO THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung! There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
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