 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1872 - 396 pages
...for a robin redbreast, and the wren, lEjEgHI Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves of flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm. JI— IEL I F—LE EI U Z 1C fj. WEBSTER, an old dramatist,... | |
 | O. Pradère - Breton literature - 1872 - 488 pages
...du bon Robin, le Rouge.Gorge : « Call for the Redbreast and the Wrenn, Since o' er shady graves the hover. And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. » H Venez, Rouge-Gorge et Roitelet, qui voltigez au-dessus des bosquets ombreux, et couvrez, de feuilles... | |
 | American poetry - 1873 - 296 pages
...of gold ! FlTX-ilAMKS O'BltlKN. A DIRGE CAM, for the robin-redbivast and the wren, Since o'er shadv groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...the same time beautiful. Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakespeare : — 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...despair and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.1 The White Devil. Act i. Sc. 2. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Ibid. Act \. Sc. 2. Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd to near have neither... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...hourly ring his knell : Hark ! now I hear them — Ding, Dong, Bell. W. Shakespeare * 23 * A LAND DIRGE CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole 5 The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd to near have neither heat nor light.1 Ibid. Act iv. Se, 4. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Ibid. Act v. Se. 2. Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 668 pages
...quoted in the preceding note : " Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady grove they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of uuburied men." Drayton, also, has it, evidently in imitation of Shakespeare: " Covering with mans the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 682 pages
...ditties in Shakespeare : — " Call for the robta-red-breast and the wren. Since o'er shady grove« they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of nnbaried men. Call unto his funeral dole. The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...the same time beautiful. Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakespeare : " 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... | |
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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... 
