 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 200 pages
...English. Dole, a share, from deal, is a purely English word. Webster, in his Land Dirge, has the lines : * Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole.' Dole (doleful, condole , etc.) is from the O. Fr. doel, Fr. denil, from Lat. dolor, grief. Cog. : Dolorous.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1881 - 892 pages
...afar off shine bright, Hut Kwk'd to near have neither heat nor light. 1 Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 4. C.'!ll for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2. Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...of the water watery, so this is of the earth earthy." A DIRGE. Call for tho robin-redbreast and tho res of the mind, And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power wa uuburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-monse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks... | |
 | English periodicals - 1923 - 1004 pages
...a bird in the bush was worth two in the hand. Then there is Webster's Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. The natural history is fantastic enough, but the lines keep fresh the old legend which must have its... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 818 pages
...the same time beautiful. Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakspeare : — Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodiei of nnburicd men. Call unto his funcrnl dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear... | |
 | George Steiner - Drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...prey. But the famous dirge in Webster's The White Devil instructs us to Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Indeed, in Webster's invocation — and he was a master of the ceremonies of death — the actual animals... | |
 | John Webster - Drama - 1996 - 176 pages
...when she heard the bell toll, to sing o'er Unto her lute. Flamineo. Do an you will, do. 95 Cornelia. Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, 77. rue] The shrub had bitter leaves and was often associated with rue = 'sorrow, regret'. 77.1. To... | |
 | Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence - Animal sacrifice - 1997 - 262 pages
...young children with leaves is expressed in John Webster's familiar lines: Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. (Hazlitt 1905, 2: 520) 41 V Christmas card... | |
 | Carolyn V. Platt - Nature - 1998 - 296 pages
...Webster's eerie lines from The White Devil can raise a shiver even today: Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again. If the... | |
 | Christine Wilkie-Stibbs - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 232 pages
...Subversions, l67. 79. The extended quotation reads, "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 ofunburied men, /For with his nails he'll dig them up again. They would not bury him because he died... | |
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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... 
