 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...the Wood ; also Webster's Vittoria Corombona (The White Devil) — • ' 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 nnburied men.' 257-260. The hare . . . . the garden seeks.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1893 - 392 pages
...were so o'ercharg'd with water. Funeral Dirge for MARCELLO. [His MOTHER sings it. Call for the roliin -red-breast, 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,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 pages
...knell : Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. VI. A LAND DIRGE. 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,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Elegiac poetry - 1893 - 312 pages
...knell : Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. VIA LAND DIRGE. 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 unburicd men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 430 pages
...behind me. JOHN WEBSTER, Vittoria Corombona, 1612, acted 1607-8. DIRGE. 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,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...bind me, JOHN WEBSTER, Vittoria Corombona, 1612, acted 1607-8. DIRGE. \ 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,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1895 - 424 pages
...bind me, JOHN WEBSTER, Vittoria Carombona, 1612, acted 1607-8. DIRGE. 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,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1895 - 438 pages
...creation returns upon itself, and begins a new cycle. cccxin A LAND DIRGE 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 1 The ant, the field-mouse,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Brain - 1896 - 286 pages
...of a chime of bells should be represented here, and, less important, the appearance of the bells. " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover." Image the robin and the wren distinctly enough to be drawn, then describe the variation in their colour,... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...Consigne to thee, and come to dust. . . . WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 282 ALANDDIRGE 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,... | |
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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... 
