 | John Frost - Presidents - 1845 - 208 pages
...wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to seek their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod ! By fairy forms their dirge is sung — By hands unseen their knell is rung — There Honour comes, a pilgrim... | |
 | American periodicals - 1845 - 638 pages
...extravagance. Here the imagination is filled and charmed by two images of one of his most famous odes. When spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould. * * * There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. THOUGHTS ON THE POETS.... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1846 - 252 pages
...considerable nmnbci of verses ; it consists of four Iambuses ; as, H6w sleep | the brave | wh8 sink | to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, But there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. 5. The fifth... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...land of the great departed, Into the Silent Land ! ODE. — Collins. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy... | |
 | Presidents - 1846 - 430 pages
...honours hlest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold. Returns to seek their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod ; By fairy forms their dirge i« sung — By hands unseen their knell is rung; — There Honour comes, a pilgrim... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...extravagance. How the imagination is filled and charmed by two images of one of his most famous odes : When spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould. * * * * There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. Who has not envied... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...in memory of those who fell in the rebellion of 1745: '1 How sleep the hrave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1847 - 904 pages
...soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity."' Huw sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fmgers cold. Returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1848 - 158 pages
...curtain'd close such scene from ev'ry future ODE WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...ingulfed in a morass. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blessed '. When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than ever Fancy's feet have trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung,... | |
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 
