 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 464 pages
...directly borrowed from this scene : ' Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady grove they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The...funeral dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But... | |
 | Charles Swainson - Birds - 1885 - 264 pages
...Webster (The White Devil) couples the wren with the robin as fellowhelpers : — " Call for the redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The same belief prevails in Germany and in Lorraine ; while in Haute Bretagne the peasants say that... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...following Dirges from WEBSTER and SIIAKSPEAKE. A LAND DIRGE. Call for the robin redbreast and the wren,1 Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of nnburied men. Call unto his funeral dole 3 The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks... | |
 | English periodicals - 1923 - 1004 pages
...a bird in the bush was worth two in the hand. Then there is Webster's Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. The natural history is fantastic enough, but the lines keep fresh the old legend which must have its... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 818 pages
...the same time beautiful. Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakspeare : — Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodiei of nnburicd men. Call unto his funcrnl dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Literary Collections - 1983 - 406 pages
...with leaves andflow'rs do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral dole i oo The ant, the field-mouse, and the 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,... | |
 | George Steiner - Drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...prey. But the famous dirge in Webster's The White Devil instructs us to Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Indeed, in Webster's invocation — and he was a master of the ceremonies of death — the actual animals... | |
 | John Webster - Drama - 1996 - 176 pages
...with leaves andflow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole 100 The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks, that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...1691.14 (17), p. 4). keep . . . ants or moles: compare John Webster's Dirge, from The White Devil v iv. The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For... | |
 | Carolyn V. Platt - Nature - 1998 - 296 pages
...Webster's eerie lines from The White Devil can raise a shiver even today: Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again. If the... | |
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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... 
