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
| Richard Robert Madden - Nationalists - 1847 - 380 pages
...there may call to mind the words of the friend, and the companion of the studies of Robert Emmet — " Oh ! 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... | |
| Thomas Moore - Ireland - 1849 - 208 pages
...light, Thy various tints unite, And form in Heaven's sight One arch of peace ! OH! BREATHE 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... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 368 pages
...come, come ! Cut thread, and thrum ! Quail, crush, conclude, and quell ! O breathe not his Name. O 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... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...come, come ! Cut thread, and thrum ! Quail, crush, conclude, and quell ! О breathe not his Name. О 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;... | |
| Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1850 - 520 pages
...his Irish Melodies : " 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...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;... | |
| Asenath Nicholson - Famines - 1850 - 464 pages
...deserted corner : — " Oh, breathe not his name, let him 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 that falls on the grass o'er his head." The summer of 1848 was pleasant and unusually sunny,... | |
| Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1850 - 534 pages
...and contemporary in college, and who thus most beautifully alludes to him in his Irish Melodies : " 0 breathe not his name ! let it sleep in the shade Where, cold and unhonoured, his relies are laid ! Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew... | |
| American periodicals - 1850 - 594 pages
...the remembrance of his virtues, while they lament in secret his folly and his untimely death. ' On ! breathe not his name, let it sleep In the shade, Where cold and unbonured his relics are laid ; Sad. silent and dark, bo the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that... | |
| American periodicals - 1850 - 600 pages
...his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonored his relira are laid ; Snd, silent und dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls ou the grasa o'er his head. * But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten... | |
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