 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pàgines
...Spring, with dewy fingers 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...sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS.... | |
 | 1840 - 652 pàgines
...snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every sod beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen...; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. Wards by T. Campbell ; tasl verse by Culliim. Thit Glee gained the Prize... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pàgines
...spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands...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 repair,... | |
 | 1898 - 494 pàgines
...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...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 repair... | |
 | William Collins - 234 pàgines
...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...; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 10 And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there 1 ODE... | |
 | 442 pàgines
...Jack of Newbury. This amiable quality is, likewise, thus beautifully alluded to by the same poet — " By FAIRY HANDS their knell is rung, By FORMS UNSEEN their dirge is sung." Their employment is thus charmingly represented by Shakespeare, in the address of Prospero — " Ye... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...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,...sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! The... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pàgines
...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Retums to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod, By fairy hands...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 repair,... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pàgines
..."How sleep the brave," personified Honour and Freedom coexist naturally with other "forms unseen": By fairy hands their 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 repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 pàgines
...The deliberate allegory signifies, in part, the gulf between literal and figurative significations: By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen...sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ... (7-10) To pose this a little differently: the gulf between literal and... | |
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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 rung;... 
