 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 sidor
...day : End your groan and come away I DIRGE. Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ! But keep... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sidor
...Line 7. 168 WEBSTER.— BASSE. — CLARENDON. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wreu, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. The White Dcril. Act v. Sc. 2. Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1016 sidor
...quoted in lh« preceding note : " Call for the robin red-breast and (he wren, Since o'er shady grove they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Drayton, also, has it, evidently in imitation of Shakespeare : " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 584 sidor
...quoted in tbn preceding note : " Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady grove they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Drayton, also, has it, evidently in imitation of Shakespeare : " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 sidor
...worth two in 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 sidor
...quaint lines worthy almost of Shakspeare : — Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they 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... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - 1983 - 406 sidor
...bodies ofunburied men. Call unto his funeral dole i oo The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks, 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 sidor
...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 sidor
...in Webster's 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 sidor
...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... 
