 Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...  The gift book of English poetry - Page 214by English poetry - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1839 - 320 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, He never lets the children play thereby. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even sí decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Mufle,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...strife Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse,... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...many a stone, excite a pleasing melancholy, in regard to the tenants of this quiet spot : — Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, GRAV. If we climb the mountain, we behold a vast variety of scenery, from the base to the far distant... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pages
...our modern villas, many a reader will be puzzled by the following verse of the poet : — " Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh!'1 Uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculptures ! Why, we shall have half an epic poem inscribed on... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1839 - 216 pages
...Quelques rimes sans art, d'incultes ornemens, Recommandent aux yeux ces obscurs monumens : XX. Yet enen these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Ovófurf, rfS ¿тf ii/вà, тà yàp fióva \ftyava AIT' f\fyшv фаfiaaff à Maaa '/iaxros евуKfу... | |
 | 1839 - 300 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! * * # * Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, He never lets the children play thereby . * * * * Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we... | |
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