 | Books and bookselling - 1882 - 782 pages
...often in old ballads the idea of redbreasts covering over the bodies of dead men recurs: — Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers cover The friendless bodies of unmarried men. 1 It illustrates (line 2) the apparent... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...your neck ! 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day : End your groan and come away I DIRGE. 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... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sydney Sichel, Bax. Ernest Belfort - English literature - 1884 - 654 pages
...Vittoria Corombona," a song which Charles Lamb places next to the dirge in the " Tempest." " 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,... | |
 | Richard Folkard - Botany - 1884 - 660 pages
...credited with employing plants for acts of similar charity. In Reed's old plays, we read — " 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." A writer in one of our popular... | |
 | Charles Swainson - Birds - 1885 - 268 pages
...while Webster (The White Devil) couples the wren with the robin as fellowhelpers :— " Call for the redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The same belief prevails in Germany... | |
 | Frederick James Furnivall - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - 1886 - 476 pages
...in Shakspere's Cymbeline, IV. ii. 224, "The ruddock would With charitable bill," &c. :— " 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," &c. The Duchess of Mnlji, ab. 1616.... | |
 | Charles Swainson - Birds - 1886 - 266 pages
...•while Webster (The White Devil) couples the wren with the robin as fellow, helpers : — " Call for the redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The same belief prevails in Germany... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1893 - 392 pages
...were so o'ercharg'd with water. Funeral Dirge for MARCELLO. [His MOTHER sings it. Call for the roliin -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,... | |
 | Herbert West Seager - Natural history - 1896 - 372 pages
...moss besides, when flowers arc none, To winter-ground thy corse. CYMBELINE, iv. 2, 218-29. CALL for the robin- redbreast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover, ^.nd with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men ; Call unto his funeral... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Central nervous system - 1896 - 280 pages
...chime of bells should be represented here, and, less important, the appearance of the bells. " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover." Image the robin and the wren distinctly enough to be drawn, then describe the variation in their colour,... | |
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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... 
