 Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary...  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 290by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...accomplishments any one can possess are a love of Nature and of books. THE DEPARTURE. -" Tboa símil lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sephulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirits' distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
 | American poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. • Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — :nor could'st thou wish...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor conld'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shalt lie...good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All iu one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-rihb'd and ancient as the sun,.— the vales Stretching in... | |
 | 1822 - 764 pages
...resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one- mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribbM and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. — The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent: thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to tlfy eternal resting-place Shalt thou Tetire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun, — the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1826 - 502 pages
...And the waters leap, and the fresh winds blow — Lady, kind lady ! oh ! let me go." THE DEPARTED. -"Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre." Bryant. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1822 - 814 pages
...resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor could'st thou wish Couch more magnificent : Thou sbalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills Kock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun,— tin, vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1827 - 360 pages
...waters leap, and the fresh winds blow — Lady, kind lady ! oh ! let me go." THE DEPARTED. -" Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre." Bryant. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore ? Earth's mightiest men,... | |
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