 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.  The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins - Page 46by William Collins - 1802 - 124 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 lehte
...ever interested my feelings more, nor could I help reciting aloud — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ; When...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there will dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod." I think Collins must have... | |
 | 1832 - 510 lehte
...writing, is from Collins : two very exquisite stanzas undoubtedly :— ' How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. * By fairy hands their... | |
 | John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 lehte
...with fancy, grandeur with simplicity, and romance with reality : — ' How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod • Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands... | |
 | Joseph Brown Ladd, W. B. Chittenden - 1832 - 252 lehte
...your slumbers in the dark house appointed for all living. " So sleep the brave who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest : When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
 | Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.) - 1833 - 352 lehte
...father, ever your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest; When...dewy fingers cold. Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their... | |
 | Sir William Hoste (1st bart), Lady Harriet Walpole Hoste - 1833 - 348 lehte
...father, ever your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest; When...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their... | |
 | Adam Fergusson - 1833 - 424 lehte
...ever interested my feelings more, nor could I help reciting aloud — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ; When...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there will dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod." I think Collins must have... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 lehte
...THE MEJ10KY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE REBELLION OF 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress o sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. " By Fairy hands their... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1833 - 550 lehte
...fortunes and ruined constitutions, sunk into an early grave. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest. 'When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 lehte
...country's wishes blest I When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. " By Fairy-hands their knell is rung-, By Forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim... | |
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