 | 1874 - 870 pages
...these two famous pieces. Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! In their lyrics these twin-poets approach sometimes very near to Shakespeare — so near indeed that... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 pages
...two famous pieces. Lay a garland on my hearse , Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false," but I was firm...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! In their lyrics these twin-poets approach sometimes very near to Shakspeare—so near indeed that... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...UNKINDXESS. SAY, I DIED TRUE. LAY a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say, I died true. My love was false, but I was firm...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! Beaumont and Fletcher. CCLXXXV. LOVE DYING OF UNKINDNESS. A DYING LOVER. Go, tell Amynta, gentle... | |
 | 1875 - 176 pages
...DESERTRD. Lay a garland on my hearse. Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow-branches bear. Say I di6d true. My love was false, but I was firm. From my hour of birth; Upon my buried hody lie Lightly, gentle earth. BRAUMONT AND FLRrCHRR. CHANGE. MISS LB LANDON. ' Where arc the flowers,... | |
 | 1875 - 782 pages
...the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. " My lore was false, but I was fina From my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth." The melody, the pathos, the artistic and unaffected expression, are all in Blake's lines as truly as in... | |
 | 1876 - 470 pages
...such as the yew and cypress; and if flowers were strewn, they were of the most melancholy colours. The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine...the unaffected elegance of thought which pervaded the whole of these funeral observances. Thus, it was an especial precaution, that none but sweet-scented... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...то 1625. SONG. Asp. Lay я garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew : Maidens, willow branches bear ; ive thee honour due, Mirth, ! Madam, good-night ; may no discontent Grow 'twixt your love and you ; but if there do, Inquire of... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 pages
..." Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say, I died troe. " My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!" In their lyrics these twin poets approach sometimes very near to Shakespeare — so near indeed that... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1877 - 270 pages
...;" and Fletcher again refers to a very similar custom — " Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches wear, Say I died true....; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth." 44 Blair enters fully into this gloomy view, and roundly denounces the yew tree as the " Cheerless,... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...old romance. THE YEW. LAY a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear ; Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth I Beaumont and Fletcher. YOUTH-THS TIME OF FLOWERS. THE lily of the vale, of flowers the queen, Puts... | |
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Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. 
