 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 Seiten
...the same time beautiful. Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakespeare : " Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates." A DIRGE.1 Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And, when gay tombs are robbed, sustain no harm : But keep... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1876 - 420 Seiten
...Nor shall death bras thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest." (d.) " Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm." {e.)... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 Seiten
...hourly ring his knell : Hark ! now I hear them — Ding, Dong, Bell. W. Shahespeare * 23 * A LAND DIRGE CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd)... | |
 | Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - 1877 - 638 Seiten
...watery ; so this is of the earth, earthy." '• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole ; To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm." The other... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1877 - 450 Seiten
...winter-ground thy corse." In Webster's White Devil, act v., we read : — " Call for the robin red breast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover And...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The critics suppose Webster to have imitated Shakespere here, but there is no ground for any such supposition.... | |
 | Frederick Scarlett Potter - 1877 - 144 Seiten
...themselves. I think the verses began : — " Call the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er lonely groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." " I wonder," said Alic, " why the robin and the wren are so often mentioned together. They are not... | |
 | 1877 - 362 Seiten
...Robin-Bedbreast —Call for the RORIN-REDRREAST and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, Ami with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. WEIWTER, The While Demi, act i. sc. 2. Robinson, Jack. — A name used in the phrase "Before one could... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 Seiten
...hourly ring his knell: Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. IV. Shakespeare. A LAND DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | 1878 - 532 Seiten
...watery; so this is of the earth, earthy." '• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole ; To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm." nal exactly,... | |
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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... 
