 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...mock us in the clay." Beaumont and Fletcher. CCLXXXIV. LOVE DYING OF UNKINDXESS. SAY, I DIED TRUE. 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 ! Beaumont and Fletcher. CCLXXXV. LOVE DYING OF UNKINDNESS. A DYING... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...somewhat similar character by Beaumont and Fletcher might have aptly followed these two famous pieces. 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 ! In their lyrics these twin-poets approach sometimes very near to Shakespeare... | |
 | 1875 - 176 pages
...DESERTRD. Lay a garland on my hearse. Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow-branches bear. Say I di6d true. My love was false, but I was firm. From my hour of birth; Upon my buried hody lie Lightly, gentle earth. BRAUMONT AND FLRrCHRR. CHANGE. MISS LB LANDON. ' Where arc the flowers,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...Believe me, 'tis a very pretty one. Evad. How is it, madam ? FROM 1558 то 1625. SONG. Asp. Lay я right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty: And, if I give thee honour due, Mirth, body, lie Lightly, gentle earth ! Madam, good-night ; may no discontent Grow 'twixt your love and you... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
..." Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say, I died troe. " My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!" In their lyrics these twin poets approach sometimes very near to Shakespeare... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 pages
...the side Of Grecian brook, or Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. THE YEW. 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 I Beaumont and Fletcher. YOUTH-THS TIME OF FLOWERS. THE lily of the... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Flowers - 1877 - 270 pages
...very similar custom — " Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches wear, 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." 44 Blair enters fully into this gloomy view, and roundly denounces... | |
 | Tom Hood - English language - 1877 - 348 pages
...fourth lines of the subjoined stanza show what may be called the normal form of the measure : — " My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body, lie Lightly, gentle earth." Long and short syllables (three long or accented) occur here in alternation,... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1878 - 676 pages
...discharging his pistol right in the face of the rash attorney ; " there's a quittance in full." THE GIPSY. Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens,...I was firm From my hour of- birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. I. A MOKNING RIDE. I had a sister, who among... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 332 pages
...save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover ne'er find my grave, To weep there. W. Shahespeare. CONSTANCY. 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 ! y. Fletrker. INCONSTANCY. TAKE, O take those lips away, That so sweetly... | |
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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! 
