 And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.  American Samplersby Ethel Stanwood Bolton, Eva Johnston Coe - 1921 - 416 pagesSnippet view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb? Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dress'd, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: ' There shall the Morn her earliest tears bestow, 65 There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...mourned! What ! tho' no sacred earth allow thes room, Nor hallow'd dh-gc b« muttered o'er thy tomb, Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,...bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow.'' But there is no reason to insist further on a subject which so clearly elucidates itself, by a reference... | |
 | James Boadan - 1800 - 380 pages
...illustrious Pope shall supply the English on this occasion, indeed, the original of the passage: " Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,...bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow." But I must turn to spirits of another sort — too bold for rebuff, and conversant with all the arts... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pages
...Yet shall thy grave with rising floy'ra be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : ,j There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy reliques made." Young... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ? Vet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dress'd, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, 65 There the first roses of the year shall blow, While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb; Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dresf-, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow 7 There the first roses of tfie year shall blow ; While angels with tfieir silver wings o'ershad«... | |
 | 1812 - 304 pages
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 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...of it : What though no sacred earth allow thee room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb, Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,...bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow. If this ELEGY be so excellent, it may be ascribed to this cause, that the occasion of it was real ;... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ? Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dress'd , And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There...bestow , There the first roses of the year shall blow ; "While angels with their silwer wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy reliques made. So ,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...Kor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ; Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dress'd. And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There...bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy relics made. How lov'd,... | |
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