 I GAZED upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round ; And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 1741878Full view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 694 pages
...ground, Twere pleasant, in that flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyful sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich green mountain turf should break. FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XI.— 4. " There through the lone, long summer hoars The golden light should lie,... | |
 | Arabella M. Willson - Baptists - 1859 - 390 pages
...Bryant's hymn, — '"Twere pleasant that in flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break." * These are no idle words, for, says the New York Recorder, * Her love... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1861 - 272 pages
...green mountains round: And thought that when I came to lie I GAZED upon the glorious sky And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain turf should break. Within the silent ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune,... | |
 | Music - 1862 - 432 pages
...silent ground, 'Twerc pleasant thnt in flowery June, When brooks Bund up л cheerful tune, And proves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand — my grave to...should break. A cell within the frozen mould, A coffin home through sleet, And icy clods above it rolled, While fierce the tempests heat — Away < I will... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1862 - 276 pages
...green mountains round; And thought that when I came to lie I GAZED upon the glorious sky And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain turf should break. At rest within the ground, Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grove nor yet in the cold ground. Where thy pale form was...many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist ! — 1 will not think of these — Blue be the sky and soft the breeze, Earth green beneath the feet,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...silent ground, Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, When brooks sent up a pleasant tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich green mountain turf should break. BRYAXT. KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1873 - 730 pages
...silent ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, When brooks sent up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make,...break A cell within the frozen mould, A coffin borne Ihrough sleet, And icy clods above it roll'd, While fierce the tempests beat — Away ! — I will... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 492 pages
...the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break A cell within the frozen mould, A coffin borne through sleet, And icy clods... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...silent ground, 'Twere4 pleasant, that in flowery June, "When brooks send up a pleasant tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich green mountain turf should break. MOTHEEWELL. 4. Stop, mortal ! Hero thy brother lies — The poet of the poor. His books were rivers,... | |
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