 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Nursery rhymes - 1849 - 296 pages
...Vittoria Corombona, 1612, couples the wren with the robin as coadjutors in this friendly office : 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. Notwithstanding the beautiful passage... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman - English literature - 1850 - 242 pages
...ancient superstition. In an old play the wren is made to join in this pious office : — " 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." The fondness of the robin for his... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 688 pages
...ancient superstition. In an old play the wren is made to join in this pious office : — " 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." The fondness of the robin for his... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1850 - 688 pages
...have given rise to the story of the rubin covering the dead bodies of human creatures ? " 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." The fondness of the robin for his... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates : — 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates : — 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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Birds - 1852 - 502 pages
...alluded to in several old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630 — 1638, says:— " 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. Michael Dray ton too alludes to... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pages
...alluded to in several old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630-38, says : — " 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 enburied men." Michael Drayton too alludes to... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse." Again in Reed's Old Plays, vi. 358 : " 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." An essayist in the Gent. Mag. for... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...corse, Whilst horror waits on princes. THE SAME FUNERAL DIRGE. (Sung by a Mother over her Son.) Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves of flowers do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant,... | |
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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 fieldmouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
