 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 145by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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. For thee, who, mindful of the' unhonour'd dead. Dost in these lines... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...1751. " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Awake and faithful to her wonted Fires." 1768. " Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires." 'The last is especially curious, as the improvement seems to have been... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 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. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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. 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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