 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates :' Call for the robin-redbreast rs Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...now I hear them — Ding, Dong, Bell. W. Shahespeare * 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 The ant, the field mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1877 - 450 pages
...winter-ground thy corse." In Webster's White Devil, act v., we read : — " Call for the robin red breast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover And...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The critics suppose Webster to have imitated Shakespere here, but there is no ground for any such supposition.... | |
 | Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - Wales - 1877 - 638 pages
...watery ; so this is of the earth, earthy." '• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over 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... | |
 | Frederick Scarlett Potter - 1877 - 144 pages
...themselves. I think the verses began : — " Call the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er lonely groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." " I wonder," said Alic, " why the robin and the wren are so often mentioned together. They are not... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...Robin-Bedbreast —Call for the RORIN-REDRREAST and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, Ami with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. WEIWTER, The While Demi, act i. sc. 2. Robinson, Jack. — A name used in the phrase "Before one could... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 332 pages
...! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. W. Skakespeare. A LAND DIRGE. 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. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...the heavens should fall. — RABELAIS, book i. ch.5 Robin-Redbreast — Call for the ROBIN-REDBREAST and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. WEBSTEK, The While Demi, act i. so. & Robinson, Jack. — A name used in the phrase " Before one could... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...Brought strawberry-leaves, And over them spread." The idea is alluded to in Reed's Old Plays : — " 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." And again thus pathetically by Drayton : —... | |
 | Wales - 1878 - 260 pages
...watery; so this is of the earth, earthy." '• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over 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... | |
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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... 
