 | John Webster - English drama - 1857 - 300 pages
...Cor. Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, {Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1859 - 424 pages
...and the wrenrf [CORNKLIA d"th this in sti-tnil/ornts of distraction. Since o'er shady дгог-ез they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburicd men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the ficld-mou.sc, and the mole, To rear him hillocks... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...on princes. THE SAME FUNERAL DIRGE. (Sung by a Mother over her Son.) Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves of flowers do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. K/EATS. 71. A DIRGE. CALL for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...mountains, And him who never will ring her With the" round hoop of gold ! FIT/-.IAMES O'BmEx. A DIIKJE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm. And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...hourly ring his knell: Hark ! now I hear them,— Ding, dong, Bell. W. Shakespeare XLVII A LAND DIRGE Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. c XLVII A LAND DIRGE ALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - English fiction - 1863 - 178 pages
...that he had said more than enough, and turning away from her, singing in a low, subdued voice, " ' Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the field-mouse,...mole, To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm,' " he looked out of the window, where Mrs. Maude had already planted herself. 3'2 33 he was then ; save... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 pages
...written by John Webster, about the year 1630, has an allusion to it : — " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of uuburieil men. " Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillock... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...simple, homely ditties in Shakespeare : — " Call for the rubin-red-breast and the wren, Slnce-o'cr shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless hodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the field-moose, and the mole, To raise... | |
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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
