 | Great Britain - 1833 - 720 pages
...mutters, as reason and misery are struggling for the mastery over her mind. " Call for the Robin-redbreast and the Wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers discover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field mouse,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...the bell, to sing o'er unto her lute. Ham. Do an you will, do. Cor. Call for the rohin-red-breast, unburicd men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English literature - 1841 - 856 pages
...learn some verses just to the same effect out of Mr. Lamb's Specimens. Did you ever hear them ? Call to the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with flowers and leaves do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Now I am quite sure that these lines... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...none, To winter-ground thy corse.'' Again in Reed's Old Plays, vol. vi. p. 35S : " Call for the Rohin 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." Thomson, in his Winter, thus mentions the... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1842 - 312 pages
...winter-ground thy corse.' ' Again in Reed's Old Plays, vol. vi. p. 358 : " Call for the Rohin Redhreast and the Wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless hodies of uuhuried men." Thomson, in his Winter, thus mentions the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...charitic ; " f the second in his Tragedy, called "The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona." 1612— M Call for the robin red-breast and the wren. Since...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men ; " \ ' and the third in one of his pamphlets printed in 1616 — "They that cheerc up a l>ri.4oner... | |
 | Catharine Crowe - 1844 - 324 pages
...XIII. " On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes." AIJ;.V ANIMUS FEAST. " Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." THE WHITE DEVIL. " Was this your handy- work ?" IBID. THE two bodies lay side by side upon the earth,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates ;' — the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,...a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilde C'all unto his funeral dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1844 - 330 pages
...o'ercharg'd with water. Funeral Dirge for MARCELLO. [ffit MOTHER sings it. Call for the Robin-red-breast, and the Wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The Ant, the Field-mouse, and the Mole, To raise him hillocks that shall... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1837 - 400 pages
...verses just to the same effect out of Mr. Lamb's Specimens. Did you ever hear them? 124 125 Call to the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with flowers and leaves do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Now I am quite sure that those lines... | |
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Call for the robin-red-breast 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... 
