 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...Anticipated. COWPER. Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. The Village Curate. J. HURDIS. Call for , MY Luve 's like a red, red rose That 's newly sprung in June : 0, my Luve 's leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. The White Devil, Act v. Sc. 2. J.... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 660 pages
...creature, from our first acquaintance with him in "The Babes in the Wood." Webster writes — " Call for the robin -redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flower» do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Thomson gives us a pretty picture... | |
 | Anthropology - 1889 - 418 pages
...that her grandmother, when she heard the bell toll, was wont to sing this dirge to her lute : 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,... | |
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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... 
