 How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is...  Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature - Page 367by Robert Chambers - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1852 - 414 pages
...their country's wishes blest 1 AVhen Spring, with dewy 6ngcrs cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell it rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sang ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...Milton.* * WILLIAM COLLINS. [. ODE WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THR YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay : And freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Arctic regions - 1853 - 274 pages
...Collins's beautiful hymn — • How Bleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest I When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...feet have ever trod, By fairy hands their knell is rang, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that... | |
 | Education - 1915 - 772 pages
...Vorbei und stets vorbei. Sieh auf ' Begrüsse da Die Geisterschar. PAIN. How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. Here Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Mormons - 1898 - 494 pages
...beard The fullness of perfected manhood bore. ODE. THE SLEEPING BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | William Collins - 234 pages
...with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 10 And Freedom shall... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...control, as in the perfectly wrought "Ode" written in the beginning of 1746: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Retums to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...knell is rung. By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray. To bless the turf that wraps their clay, 10 And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...rest ULTIMATE By all their country's wishes blessed! MATTERS When Spring with dewy fingers cold 422 1 Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall...knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | John Adams - Literary Collections - 2003 - 516 pages
...their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
| |
