 OH ! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head.  The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq - Page 101by Thomas Moore - 1825 - 6 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...request, the " charity of the world's silence," the poet Moore thus beautifully mourns his fate. 8. "O breathe not his name, — let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid, — Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...memory bring thee Strains I used to sing thee — Oh ! then remember me. OH ! BREATUE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,...night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head ! But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 396 pages
...various tints unite, And form in heaven's sight One arch of peace I OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH I breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade. Where...night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 324 pages
...the poet Moore, who thus alludes to his last request — " the charity of the world's silence : " " O breathe not his name ; let it sleep in the shade, Where, cold and unhonored, his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night dew... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - English literature - 1841 - 326 pages
...the poet Moore, who thus alludes to his last request — "the charity of the world's silence." " O breathe not his name ; let it sleep in the shade, Where, cold and unhonored, his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night dew... | |
 | John Smith Hanna - United States - 1844 - 378 pages
...Columbia. Oh ! sound loud his name that sleeps in the shade, . . i . • Where cold and uuuonor'd hit relics are laid : Sad, silent and dark, be the tears...night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the dew-drop that falls, tho' in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps... | |
 | 1845 - 338 pages
...crush which, I seized the sword, in the fond belief that my commission was from heaven." CHAPTER VIII. Oh, breathe not his name ! Let it sleep in the shade Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid. Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed As the night dew that... | |
 | Robert Emmet - 1845 - 140 pages
...of tlie firisfj fiirsurrotton of 1803 : ALSO, THE CELEBRATED SPEECH MADE BY HIM ON THE OCCASION. 0 breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night dew... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Ireland - 1846 - 366 pages
...to mind the words of the friend, and the companion of the studies of Robert Emmet— " Oh! brealhe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night dew... | |
 | Songs, English - 1847 - 906 pages
...resemble a long day of light, And our death come on holy, and calm as the night OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade Where cold and unhonor'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew... | |
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