Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey... The Works of Lord Byron - Page 438by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...ingenuous Shame; Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame! Yet, even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...sculpture, deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...that covers it. 'Tis the last tribute v/hich the humblest pay to the most humble. " Yet e'en those bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd; Implores the passing tribute of a sigh." 1 The stranger who in days to come, shall visit our shore, will exclaim, show me the statue of your... | |
| George Merriam - 1828 - 292 pages
...learned to stray ; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse.... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life i They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their yefers, spelled by the unlettered... | |
| 1828 - 608 pages
...alas! there are but too many originals. THE VILLAGE CHURCHYARD. " Yet e'en these bones from intuit to protect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh. With uncouth rhymes and shapele»« sculpture declc'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigb. " Their names, their yearn,... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...learn' d to stray; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. •Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the four following... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1839 - 320 pages
...learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, He never lets the children play thereby. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him... | |
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