 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pagina’s
...lawn, cor at the wood was he. The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church way path we saw him borne, Approach -and read (for thou canst read) the lay, 'Grav-d on the s'one beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,,A... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pagina’s
...lawn, nor at the wood was he. The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church way path we saw him borne, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, 'Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. rests his head upon the lap of earth, to... | |
 | 1821 - 444 pagina’s
...nightingale, red-breast*, wren3, water-wagtail, 1 See TT for 1814, p. 304 ; and for 1817, p. 125. 1 Here scattered oft the earliest of the year, By hands unseen...showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to haunt and warble here, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. GRAY. See likewise TT for 1818,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pagina’s
...nor at the wood was he : " The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH.' Here rests his head upon the lap of earth... | |
 | 1821 - 282 pagina’s
...lawn, nor at the wood was he. The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the chin chway path we saw him borne, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, 'Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. Here restf bis head upon the lap of earth,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pagina’s
...place. The lines however are, in themselves, exquisitely lino, and demand preservation. There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pagina’s
...lawn, nor at the wood was he ; ' The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.' THE EPITAPH* HERE rests his head upon the lap of Earth... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pagina’s
...lawn, nor at the wood, was he. The next with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne ; Approach, and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Grav'd on the stone, beneath yon aged thorn. Here the words, thou canst are emphatical, as they are... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pagina’s
...at the wood was he ; * " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, " Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. " Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, " Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of Earth... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pagina’s
...lawn, nor at the wood was he. The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, 'Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of eartb,... | |
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One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw... 
