 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge a song; There Honour comes, • pilgrim pray, To hless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! ODE TO MERCY. STEOPHE. ' Gentlest of sky-horn forms, and hest ador'd : Who oft with songs, divine to... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1819 - 394 pages
...hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is 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. SONG LII. DIRGE IN CYMBELINE. Sung by Guiderius and Arviragus over Fidele, supposed be dead. BY THE... | |
 | William Collins - 1815 - 118 pages
...knell is rung ; By forms uuseen their dirge is sang ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To hless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! Ode to Jtfercy. STROPHE. О Thou, who sit'st a smiling hride By valour's arm'ct and awful side, Gentlest... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray. To bless the turf that...shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! § 151. Ode to Mercy. COLLIKS. STROPHE. 0 THOU, who sitt'st a smiling bride By Valor's arm'd and... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1818 - 544 pages
...feelings of the human heart; and it "shall be had in everlasting remembrance1." (1) "* There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps...clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weepiug Uermit there." Hence we passed over the swampy Plain of CHAP. Trachinia, in the midst of the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...ever trod. 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 there. TO MERCT. O THOU, who sit'st a smiling bride By Valour's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE, TO A LADY, OH THE DEATH OF COL. CHARLES ROSS,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...ever trod. 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...shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. 1 This, and the succeeding ode, seem to have been written on the same occasion, viz. the rebellion... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...have ever trod. 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 there." Collins. 1746. Tlie unfortunate author of these inimitable... | |
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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... 
