 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,...youth, to fortune and to fame unknown . Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Efiitafih. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1828 - 188 pages
...barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young; And I lav'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. THE NEGRO BOY. [The African Prince, who was some years ago in England, being asked what he had given... | |
 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...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 Earth...Youth , to Fortune and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown' d not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...borne, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the layr 'Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth,...youth to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." The Epitaph. HERE rests his head upon the lap df earfh...youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...plunder forbear ! • She will say, 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she ayerr'd. And 1 lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tonguej Epitaph: Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...barbarous deed\ For he ne'er can be true', she averr'd', Who can rob a poor bird of its young* : Andllov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from...youth to fortune and to fame unknown* ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth', And melancholy mark'd him for her own\ Large was his bounty', and... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...Youth to Fortune, and to Fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...: 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 earth,...youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown ; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
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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 church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon... 
