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" Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind. "
Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 91
by John Wien Forney - 1873
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A Festival of Art, Poetry and Song: Selections from the Greatest Poets of ...

Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...one Who lives upon all memories, Though with the buried gone. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined, — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind ! 160 BramarJ, Pinkney, Read, Cutter, Prentice, Cist, Gallagher, Perkins, Byron, abbe, Scott, Hogg,...
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An Empire of Information: Uniting Four Regions of Thought ...

John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...world lost much good poetry. His verses on Burns contained this remarkable stanza: Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines. Shrines to no code or creed confined, — The Delphian vales, the Palestine The Meccas of the mind. The death of Marco Bozzaris, while fighting for the freedom of Greece,...
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The Royal Path of Life: Or, Aims and Aids to Success and Happiness

Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - Conduct of life - 1881 - 672 pages
...whose resting-place did Halleck write these beautiful lines? " Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind." It was Burns, the plow-boy, afterward the national bard of Scotland. And Burns himself has left evidence...
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...one Who lives upon all memories, Though with the buried gone. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find ; Yet it creates, tran Sages, with Wisdom's garland wreath'd, Crown'd kings, and mitred priests of power, And warriors with...
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Harper's Cyclopædia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...the hallowed home of one Who lives upon all memories, Though with the buried gone. Such graves as his irst it will embrace; Hi* country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th' Mcccas of the mind. Sage's with Wisdom's garland wreathed, Crowned kings, and mitred priests of power,...
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Louisiana Journal of Education, Volume 3

Education - 1881 - 350 pages
...benevolence, in his own native land and in England, we cannot but feel, that " Such graves as his aro pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined,— The Delphian Vales, the Palestine», Tlu) Mecca» of the mind ! " And now for the Board of Trustees appointed by Mr. Peabody,...
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Uncle Pat's Cabin Or Life Among the Agricultural Labourers of Ireland

William C. Upton - 1882 - 300 pages
...friends are near you; they will not interrupt you. CHAPTEE XXXT. ON THE TRACE. " Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined—...Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind." HALLKCK. IT is not a matter of surprise if the ferocity of human nature be something more than. human,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...one Who lives upon all memories, Though with the buried gone. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, .Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind. Sages, with Wisdom's garland wreathed, Crowned kings, and mitred priests of power, And warriors with...
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Autobiography, criticism, and index

Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...passages exemplifying its author's felicity of expression ; as, for instance — " Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines — Shrines to no code or creed...Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.'" And, again — ' ' There have been loftier themes than his, And longer scrolls and louder lyres, And...
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Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...to be. Ibid. One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. Ibid. Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined,...Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind. Sams. HALLECK. — LOCKHART.— PHILLIPS. 501 Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days...
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