 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
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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,...mountain turf should break. A cell within the frozen mold, A coffin borne through sleet, And icy clods above it rolled, While fierce the tempests beat —... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
...grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break. A cell within the frozen mould, A cotliu borne through sleet, And icy clods above it rolled, While fierce the tempests beatAway ! — I will not think of these — Blue be the sky nnd soft the breeze, " Earth green beneath... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...the ground, 'T were 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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...the ground, 'T were pleasant that, in flowery June, When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves dmund Clarence mountain-turf should break. A cell within the frozen mould, A coffin borne through sleet, And icy clods... | |
 | John Burroughs - American poetry - 1901 - 388 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... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1902 - 386 pages
...pleasant that in flowery June, When brooks send up a joyous tune, And groves a cheerful sound, [203] The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich green mountain turf should break. June 20th. — On the Mary Powell en^ j0y'd everything beyond precedent. The delicious tender summer... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - Poets, American - 1903 - 608 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1903 - 880 pages
...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 to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break. A cell within the frozen mould, A coffin borne through sleet, And icy clods... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - American poetry - 1905 - 730 pages
...the ground, T were 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... | |
 | James Brady Smiley - American literature - 1905 - 348 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." Two days later he was buried at Roslyn, Long Island. Stedman's Tribute.... | |
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