 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown ; Perhaps the self-same song... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night, was heard In ancient days, by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self- same song, that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...eestasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—- To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain, To thy high requiem become a sod. Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down : The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown ; Perhaps the self-same song... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...watt not born for death, immortal bird t ffo hungry generationt tread then down : The roice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through tho sad heart of Ruth, when, tick for home, She ttood in lean amid the alien corn ; Tho same that ofttimes... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. r. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice 1 hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and cluwn : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1883 - 826 pages
...Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor...found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick fcr hone, She stood in tears amid the alien corn ; The same that ofttimes hath Charmed magic casements,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1910 - 914 pages
...the all-destroyer, throws not a hand.' Keats, too, plays with the thought in his famous ode : Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self -same song... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...1 Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod. VII. Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 pages
...Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become« sod. vn. Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song... | |
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick... 
