 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
 | William Harmon, Professor William Harmon - Poetry - 1998 - 360 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' unhonor"d dead Dost in these lines their... | |
 | Henry James - England - 1999 - 376 pages
...Country Churchyard, st. 23: 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. 301. 4. End of twelfth serial episode. 328. 34. 'But you're all right!':... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 365 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' unhonour'd Dead Dost in these lines their... | |
 | William Blake - Art - 2000 - 128 pages
...CHURCH- YARD. i!5 On feme fond breift the parting foul relies, Some pious drops the doling eye requires j Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our alhes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead, Doft in thefc lines their... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 344 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 tbese Lines their... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 298 pages
...desire for memorialization. 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. (lines 89-92) Gray is not concerned with the way in which members of... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - History - 2005 - 322 pages
...of Johnsonian community: 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. (89— 92)52 More striking is what Johnson forgets when he praises these... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 259 pages
...lingering look behind? ON some fond breast the parting soul relies, 90 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 unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | John Reid - Poetry - 2005 - 151 pages
...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires. Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the... | |
 | Simon White, John Goodridge, Bridget Keegan - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 315 pages
...The Remains of Robert Bloomfield, a collection of posthumous poems and tributes published in 1824: Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted fires. (91-92) In the early nineteenth century, the genre of "poetical remains"... | |
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