 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Approach and read— for thou canst read — the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.1 1 THE a : So draw mankind in vain the vrai airs, Unformed, unfriended by those kindly caree Scieuce frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 366 pages
...a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue." Pastorals appear under various forms. We have Pastoral Songs, Pastoral Elegies, Pastoral Dramas, &c.... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...— Approach and read (for thou canst read) the layGraved 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 frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her i Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Bachelors - 1833 - 60 pages
...barbarous deed ! For he ne'er could be true,"- she averr'd, " Who could rob a poor bird of its young •," And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. \ I have heard her with sweetness unfold, How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended the... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...plunder forbear, For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to—a- dove: That it ever attended the... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 202 pages
...barbarous deed. ?or he ne'er could prove true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of her young : \.nd I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue." lie Amphibrachic measure, in which there is a long sylbetween two short ones, is best adapted to lively... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Approach and read' (for Hum cantt read') the lay-', 'Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn'." THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth',...A youth to fortune','' and to fame unknown'; Fair science0 frowned not on his humble* birth', And melancholy marked him for her own'. Large was his bounty',... | |
 | Elihu F. Marshall - English language - 1834 - 164 pages
...a barb'rous deed. II, For he ne'er can be true, she ayer'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. III. I have heard her with sweetness unfold, E'en that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1834 - 698 pages
...deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I loved her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended the... | |
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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... 
