 On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 132by Thomas Gray - 1775 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...lingering look behind ? On some fond breast tin- parting suul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wooted fires. — Elegg. Day. Prid. Cal. 31. Abraham Demoivre, I'itn, in Champagne,... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1839 - 500 pages
...under the ills of life, and a happy preparative for the rest of a glorious and a blessed immortality. " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." " TO THE REV. ROBERT HALL, KELSO. " The Pavilion, Harrowyate, Yorkshire,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...longing. Jing'ring look behind! On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Ev'n from the tomb, the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. 69*. ABVAXTAGES ov KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge, in penera!, expands the mind,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 pages
...ling'ring look behind ? ^ 1 ' I On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | Willa Cather - Literary Collections - 1973 - 218 pages
...is quoting from Gray's "Elegy" on those obscure lives who even in death do not want to be forgotten: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, / Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires." "Double Birthday" more than any other story in this group of seven... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...life, which survives, perhaps only in epitaphs and in "trembling hope," but which is assuredly there: "Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires." The animals, the muttering poet, the lisping children, and the "still... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; 90 Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee who, mindful of th' unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 238 pages
...longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. (85-92) The passage speaks equally to and of those who both pass away... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. Swift, Pope's Odyssey, Milton's Belial, Lucretius, Ovid, and Petrarch... | |
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