| George Herman Ellwanger - Gardening - 1889 - 388 pages
...shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. COLLINS. For her the morning choir... | |
| English poetry - 1890 - 332 pages
...crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave' with pearly dew. The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds, and beating... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 pages
...nightly crew; But female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gathered flowers Todeck the ground where thoa art laid. When howling winds and beating rain... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1890 - 252 pages
...nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The red-breast oft. at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid. With hoary moss and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds and beating rain... | |
| Edward James Earl of Herbert - English essays - 1892 - 564 pages
...nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers To deck the ground where thou art laid. Where howling winds, and beating... | |
| James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 pages
...nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds and beating rain,... | |
| James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 pages
...nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds and beating rain,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1894 - 906 pages
...allusion we are reminded of Collins's lovely Dirge in Cymbeline, which has the verse : The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thoa art laid. From all that has been here said,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...nightly crew : The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dewl The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds and beating... | |
| Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...nightly crew ; But female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid. With hoary moss and gathered flowers To deck the ground where thou art laid. five, When howling winds and beating... | |
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