 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who would 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who would 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young : '.nd I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. ^" T, Epitaph. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ;... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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 of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Srience frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Francis Bulhof - Authors, Dutch - 1993 - 260 pages
...schuilplaats, waar zij in sidderende hoop allen samen rusten - de boezem van zijn Vader en zijn God! 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... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...bome. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thom." 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. 120 Large was his bounty and... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved 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 own. Large was his bounty, and his... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 388 pages
..."Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, 115 "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. 1 2.0 Large was his bounty,... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the Lay, Grav'd on the Stone beneath yon aged Thorn." 300 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... 
