 | Wales - 1878 - 242 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... | |
 | Wales - 1878 - 532 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - Birds - 1878 - 472 pages
...dramatist, calls upon the robin and the wren to watch over the last home of sad humanity : — " Call for a robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves of flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. " When the bloom and sunshine of May make... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...I now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. W. Shakespeare. 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... | |
 | William Jones - Folklore - 1880 - 584 pages
...robin in these pious duties; thus Webster, in his "Tragedy of Vittoria Corombona" (1612), says : " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." There is a legend in which the robin is made to symbolise the resurrection. The bird belonged to St.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...with the lark, and with the lark to bed. The Village Curate. J. HURDIS. Call for the robin-redbreast brow of the mighty Helvellyn, Lakes and mountains...gleamed misty and wide : All was still, save, by uuburied men. T/tr If /att Dait, ла т. Sc. 2. J. WEBSTER. What bird so sings, yet so does wail ?... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Children - 1880 - 158 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...till Pity's self be dead. WILLIAM COLLINS. DIRGE. FROM "THE WHITE DEVIL." CALL for the robin-redbreast rmor drest, And he has bound Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 372 pages
...play 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 unburied men. Drayton, also, has it, evidently in imitation of Shakespeare : Covering with moss the dead's unclosed... | |
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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... 
