 | W. F. March Phillipps - 1879 - 384 sivua
...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...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, For with his nails he'll... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 sivua
...for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with flowers and leaves do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call...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... | |
 | William Jones - 1880 - 778 sivua
...Vittoria Corombona" (1612), says : " 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." There is a legend in which the robin is made to symbolise the resurrection. The bird belonged to St.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 sivua
...bed. The Village Curate. J. HURDIS. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves nd mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide : All was still, save, by uuburied men. T/tr If /att Dait, ла т. Sc. 2. J. WEBSTER. What bird so sings, yet so does wail ?... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 sivua
...the hand. Then there is Webster's 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. The natural history is fantastic enough, but the lines keep fresh the old legend which must have its... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 sivua
...hover, 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...warm And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; Bnt keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again. This... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - 1983 - 406 sivua
...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...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, For with his nails he 11... | |
 | Stanley Sultan - 1987 - 346 sivua
...calling on birds to bury a "friendless" body with leaves and flowers, and on small boring animals: 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 with his nails he'll dig... | |
 | George Steiner - 1996 - 340 sivua
...The White Devil instructs us to 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. Indeed, in Webster's invocation — and he was a master of the ceremonies of death — the actual animals... | |
 | John Webster - 1996 - 176 sivua
...the bird was said to cover the face, or even the whole body, with moss. And 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... | |
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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... 
