 | John Webster - English drama - 1857 - 300 pages
...Cor. Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, {Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates : — Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...funeral dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm And, when gray tombs are robb'd, sustain no hayffi; But... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...hourly ring his knell: Hark ! now I hear them,— Ding, dong, Bell. W. Shakespeare XLVII A LAND DIRGE Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. K/EATS. 71. A DIRGE. CALL for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...mountains, And him who never will ring her With the" round hoop of gold ! FIT/-.IAMES O'BmEx. A DIIKJE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm. And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. c XLVII A LAND DIRGE ALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady...mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that 's foe to men,... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 pages
...written by John Webster, about the year 1630, has an allusion to it : — " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of uuburieil men. " Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillock... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Ballads, English - 1866 - 240 pages
...the robin redbreaft and the wren, Since o'er Jbady groves they hover, And with leaves and ftovcers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call...field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that Jball keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) suftain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1867 - 520 pages
...(17th century), in the ' Duchesfc of Malfi,' alludes to them thus : — " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." And Mr. Harting has noticed Shakspeare's and Isaak Walton's allusions to this charity of the " honest... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 436 pages
...hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. XLVH A LAND DIRGE /~"*ALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, V_x Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves...mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
