 | 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 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakespeare : — Call for the robin-redbreast 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 rear him hillocks that shall... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...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 shady groves they hover,...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
...now I hear them — Ding, Dong, Bell. W. Shakespeare * 23 * A LAND DIRGE CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole 5 The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...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 shady groves they hover,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakespeare : " Call for the robin-redbreast 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 rear him hillocks that shall... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates." A DIRGE.1 Call for the robin-redbreast 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 rear him hillocks that shall... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 460 pages
...to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates." A DIRGE. 1 Call for the robin-redbreast 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 rear him hillocks that shall... | |
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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... 
