 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1869 - 490 sidor
...solemn and indisputable fact of the brevity of human life and the restricted dominion of man, — " Whose part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills IB, that his grave is green." But to-day all sober-hued reflections were exorcised by the rapturous... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - 1879 - 494 sidor
...solemn and indisputable fact of the brevity of l>uman life and the restricted dominion of man, — "Whose part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the Bummer hills Is, that his grave is green." But to-day all sober-hued reflections were exorcised by... | |
 | Glasgow Academical Club - 1870 - 138 sidor
...those who understood him pardoned his infirmities. Much more should they be pardoned now to one " ' ' Whose part in all the pomp that fills The circuit...the Summer hills, Is — that his grave is green." May we not apply to him Massinger's oft-quoted lines — " Cut is the branch that might have grown... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 492 sidor
...light, and bloom Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These to their softened hearts should bea. The thought of what has been, And speak of one who...their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice. A SONG OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND. COME, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin-door ; The winds shall... | |
 | Abraham Lansing - 1873 - 634 sidor
...grandeur, the triumph, the excitement, the labor and unrest of his life with the quiet of his sleep. " His part in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills Is that his grave is green." He has left behind him the memory of his greatness, his nobility, his achievements and his virtues—a... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 sidor
...light, and bloom Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who...their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice. 1 Since this essay was written Mr. Bryant has amended the first line to read, 1 know that I no more... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 362 sidor
...light, and bloom Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who cannot share The gladness of the scene ; Whose part,in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills, Is that his grave is green ; And deeply... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1874 - 528 sidor
...the greatest man is in any degree necessary, and after a very short space of time — " His place, in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills, Is that his grave is green." 4. A relative insignificance, then, is, and must be, the destined lot of the immense majority, and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 sidor
...light, and bloom, Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who...their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice. The rhythmical flow here is even voluptuous — nothing could be more melodious. The poem has always... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 298 sidor
...light, and bloom Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These to their soften'd hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who...their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice. The rhythmical flow, here, is even voluptuous — nothing could be more melodious. The poem has always... | |
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Nor would its brightness shine for me, Nor its wild music flow. But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These... 
