CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That... The Gentleman's Magazine - Página 5831893Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1852 - 190 páginas
...than content. SALISBURY HOUSK, January 1, 1852. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO V. — Beginning — Call it not vain ! They do not err Who say, that,...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply. And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. Not that, in sooth,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that,...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies; Who say 5 tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill;... | |
| Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 290 páginas
...apply to the orator and lover of nature, as well as to the poet, those beautiful lines of Scott — Call it not vain, they do not err, Who say, that when...loved groves, that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And Ocean tells its rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. The resolutions were... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 páginas
...Han, And thus his tale continued ran. trje £ag of tlje Cast iîlinstttl. CANTO ПГТП. •L CALI it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their mailing wave To murmur dirges round his grave. IL Kot that, in... | |
| Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 300 páginas
...those beautiful lines of Scott — Call it not vain, they do not err, AVho say, that when the 1'oet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates...distil ; Through his loved groves, that breezes sigh, Anil oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And Ocean tells its rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.... | |
| Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard - 1853 - 300 páginas
...apply to the orator and lover of nature, as well as to the poet, those beautiful lines of Scott — Call it not vain, they do not err, Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies; AVho say tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal... | |
| William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 páginas
...feelings of his fellow men ; a monument far more imperishable than those wrought of marble and brass. "Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say,...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." SIK WALTER SCOTT.... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1854 - 418 páginas
...Lay of the Last Minstrel, and, as if by instinct, the first lines my eye fell upon were these: — " Call it not vain: they do not err Who say, that when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." " Melrose!" said... | |
| Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 páginas
...fair, The best-beloved Night ! EXEKCIBE VIII. ' Lay of the Last Minstrel." Canto v. Opening lines. Call it not vain ! — They do not err, Who say that,...distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, 98 O! holy eye of Night, from thee having-learnt, how much Each other man has-borne before me, I dare... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 páginas
...hut Stands on a coronet, or star, or mitre, The glorious corner-stones. BKDDOIS. Call it not rain : they do not err Who say that when the Poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And cclebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; The... | |
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