 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...hourly ring his knell : Hark ! now I hear them — Ding, Dong, Bell. W. Shahespeare * 23 * A LAND DIRGE CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd)... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1877 - 450 pages
...winter-ground thy corse." In Webster's White Devil, act v., we read : — " Call for the robin red breast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover And...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The critics suppose Webster to have imitated Shakespere here, but there is no ground for any such supposition.... | |
 | Frederick Scarlett Potter - 1877 - 144 pages
...themselves. I think the verses began : — " Call the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er lonely groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." " I wonder," said Alic, " why the robin and the wren are so often mentioned together. They are not... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 pages
...hourly ring his knell: Hark ! now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. IV. Shakespeare. A LAND DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | Wales - 1878 - 532 pages
...watery; so this is of the earth, earthy." '• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...mole ; To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm." nal exactly, to my mind, represents Ab Gwilym's genius,—... | |
 | Wales - 1878 - 260 pages
...watery; so this is of the earth, earthy." '• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...mole; To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm." The other is the poem where he supposes that Ifor... | |
 | Wales - 1878 - 242 pages
...watery ; so this is of the earth, earthy." '' Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...mole ; To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm." The other is the poem where he supposes that Ifor... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...hoped t« catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. — RABELAIS, book i. ch.5 Robin-Redbreast — Call for the ROBIN-REDBREAST and the wren, Since o'er...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. WEBSTEK, The While Demi, act i. so. & Robinson, Jack. — A name used in the phrase " Before one could... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...hourly ring his knell: Hark I now I hear them, — Ding, dong, Bell. W. Shakespeare. A LAND DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - Elegiac poetry - 1879 - 384 pages
...for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over shady groves they hover, And with flowers and leaves do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men ; Call...mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And, when gay tombs are robbed, sustain no harm j But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,... | |
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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
