 | John Bell - 1796
...room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb? Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dress'd, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: ' There...their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy relics made. So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth,... | |
 | James Boadan - 1800
...English on this occasion, indeed, the original of the passage: " Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow." But I must turn to spirits of another sort — too bold... | |
 | 1803 - 168 pages
...drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : ,j There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While...their silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy reliques made." Young de M passed the night at the grare of Adelaide. Marianne followed him thither,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pages
...Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ? Vet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dress'd, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There...their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy relics made. So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804
...room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb; Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs be dresf-, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow 7 There the first roses of tfie year shall blow ; While angels with tfieir silver wings o'ershad«... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804
...instructive ! receive at least a poetical benediction in the language of thy successful imitator: " Oh ! may thy grave with rising flow'rs be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast !" n On April the thirteenth, 1778, I left the university for the curacy of Stockport, in Cheshire,... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1805
...offerings proposed:— " What though no sacred earth afford thee room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb; Yet shall thy grave with rising flow'rs...drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. * Here shall the Morn her earliest tears bestow, Here the first roses of the year shall blow ; While... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806
...allow thee room, Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb, Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast; There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow. If this ELEGY be so excellent, it may be ascribed to... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806
...Nor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ? Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dress'd, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; "While angels with their silwer wings o'ershade The... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806
...Kor hallow'd dirge be mutter'd o'er thy tomb ; Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be dress'd. And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the Morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground,... | |
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And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made. 
