| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 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. TO MEECY. 8TEOPHE. Gentlest of sky-born forms, and... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 nwhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. C OLLIN S. ODE TO EVENING. If aught of oaten stop,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...of the place ; From Collins' "Ode, written in the beginning of the year 1746 " : — " There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, T" dwell a weeping hermit there." "While sweetly blending, still are seen, The wavy... | |
| Books - 1854 - 382 pages
...ever trod. " By fairy hands their knell is rung, 15y 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." We hope our readers will consider that we have essentially... | |
| William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 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. H. ODE TO PITT. • ,-",".,• s Bard it Euripides... | |
| United States. Congress - 1947 - 88 pages
...By forms unseen their dirge is sung, By hands unseen their knell is rung. Here Honor comes a Pilgram gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And freedom shall awhile repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there. Mr. RICHARDS. Mr. Speaker, I send to the desk a resolution... | |
| Mormons - 1898 - 494 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 wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping pilgrim there. COLLINS. RELIGIOUS FAITHS, XI. THE CLAIMS, DOCTRINES,... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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! The perfection of this finely carved piece makes one wonder whether the kind of thing Collins did in... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 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 wraps their clay, 10 And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hecmit there! A SONG FROM SHAKESPEARE'S CYMBELINE... | |
| Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
..."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 there. Personification is thus a trope that elevates the natural... | |
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