 | Thomas Peter Akers - 1851 - 538 pages
...affection — the halls of comfort and affluence, to lie in the cold chambers of the grave, and become "A brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish...the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon •" Whose ear will never more listen to the " Breezy call of incense breathing morn, The swallow twittering... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pages
...cold ground Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth to be resolved to earth again. The hills, Hock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1851 - 400 pages
...of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, and be resolv'd to earth again ; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix for ever with the elements ; To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 384 pages
...again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mouldYet not to thine eternal resting-plage Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourish'd thee, shall claim Thy growth to be resolved to earth...surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish clod, which... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1852 - 388 pages
...cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim...human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. 4. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth agam ; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever... | |
 | 1852 - 424 pages
...But ah! how changed is that storn castle now! Inexorable time has ruined all, save the turf around "Which the rude swain turns with his share And treads upon." The walls are jagged and torn — turret and tower — donjon-keep and banquet hall have felt the forco... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears ; Nor in the embrace of Ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim...surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go 352 THANATOPS1S. To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim...human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shall thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to th' insensible rock And to the sluggish... | |
| |
Yet a' few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim... 
