 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 396 pages
...but incorporate with the golden ore as rich and precious as themselves. FROM THE "MAID'S TRAGEDY." Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens...died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From rny hour of birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. This way, this way, come and hear,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...Evad. How is it, madam ? Asp. Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew ; Maidens } willow brandies bear ; say I died true : My love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body lay lightly gentle earth. Madam, good night;—may no discontent Grow 'twixt your love and you... | |
 | Severn river - English poetry - 1859 - 408 pages
...Went up, and watered all the ground, and each Plant of the field. MILTON. Song of the Dying Maiden. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens,...but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. FLETCHER. Floret Ager. Vix ea fatus erat, cum nuda incomptaqve tellus,... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away ! CAMPBELL. a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens,...but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Dmtt of fCOME, I come! — ye have called me... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...MAID'S TRAGEDY." LAY a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches bear ; Say T died true. My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth! BEATMOXT AXD FLETCHKK. %mm\. SWIFTER far than summer's flight, Swifter... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 732 pages
...RnrlnTiil on my hearse, Of the diemal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear ; Say I died true : My lovo woe false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body Ho Lightly, gentle earth ! F.vatl. Fie on't, madam ! The words are so strange, they are able to... | |
 | 1864 - 670 pages
...Evelyn again unconsciously sent a shaft to his heart when she sang Fletcher's little madrigal. " Lay .1 garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens,...I was firm From my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body He Lightly, gentle earth I" Her voice, the most melting, sweet, and tuneful, was well suited to... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...long-departed joys. WR SPENSER T AY a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew ; J t maidens, willow-branches bear ; say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth ; upon my buried body lie lightly, gentle earth ! BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 23 HUMILITY MY fortune might I form at will,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1865 - 532 pages
...my hearse. Of the dismall yew, Maidens, willow branches wear, Say I died true. " My love was fulse, but I was firm. From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth." The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - American drama - 1865 - 592 pages
...Evad. How is it, madam ? Asp. " Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow-branches bear ; say I died true : My love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body lay lightly, gentle earth." Madam, good-night ; — may no discontent Grow 'twixt your love and... | |
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Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth! 
