 IN spite of all the learned have said, I still my old opinion keep; The posture that we give the dead Points out the soul's eternal sleep. Not so the ancients of these lands; — The Indian, when from life released, Again is seated with his friends, And...  Selections from the American Poets - Page 15by William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 412 pages
...BURYING GROUND. IN spite of all the learn'd have said, I still my old opinion keep ; The posture that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep....joyous feast. His imaged birds, and painted bowl, And ven'son, for a journey dress'd, Bespeak the nature of the soul, Activity, that knows no rest. His bow,... | |
 | 1829 - 426 pages
...BURYING GROUND. IN spite of all the learn' d have said, I still my old opinion keep ; The posture that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep....joyous feast. His imaged birds, and painted bowl, And ven'son, for a journey dress'd, Bespeak the nature of the soul, Activity, that knows no rest. His bow,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...BURYING-GROUND. IN spite of all the learn'd have said, I still my old opinion keep ; The posture that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep....from life released, Again is seated with his friends, Ah me ! what mischiefs on the dead attend ! Wandering a stranger to the shores below, Where shall I... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...BURYING-GROUND. I i. spite of all the learn'd have said, I still my old opinion keep ; The posture that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep. Not so the aiu-ir uts of these lands — The Indian, when from life released. Again is seated with his friends,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...fruits as sickly bear, And apples a consumptive visage shew, And wither'd hangs the whortleberry blue. Not so the ancients of these lands — The Indian,...from life released, Again is seated with his friends, Ah me ! what mischiefs on the dead attend ! And shares again the joyous feast.* Wandering a stranger... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...BUEÏIÏtfiGROirHD. In spite of all the Icarn'd have said I still my old opinion keep ; The posture that we give the dead Points out the soul's eternal sleep....ancients of these lands ; — The Indian, when from life releas'd, Again is seated with his friends, And shares again the joyous feast. His imag'd birds, and... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 pages
...painted bowl, And ven'son, for a journey drest, Bespeak the nature of the soul, Activity, that wants no rest His bow for action ready bent, And arrows, with a head of bone, Can only mean that life is spent, And not the finer essence gone. Thou, stranger, that shalt... | |
 | Benjamin Glazier Willey - 1870 - 322 pages
...Mr. Furber, the perfect skeleton of a human body was found in a sittiag posture. " The Indian, Trhen from life released, Again is seated with his friends, And shares again the joyous feast." In Ossipee is a large mound of earth, forty-five or fifty feet in diameter, perfectly round, and about... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 pages
...Burying-ground." IN spite of all the learned have said, I still my old opinion keep ; The posture that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep....Bespeak the nature of the soul, — Activity, that wants no rest. His bow, for action ready bent, And arrows, with a head of bone, Can only mean that... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 pages
...BURYING-GROUND. IN spite of all the learn'd have said, I still my old opinion keep ; The pottwe that we give the dead, Points out the soul's eternal sleep....— The Indian, when from life released, Again is sealed with his friends, And shares again the joyous feast.* His imaged birds, and painted bowl, And... | |
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