 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...stray; Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the 'unletter'd Muse The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial,...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelled by the unlettered... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. •Between this and the preceding stanza, in Mr. Gray's first MS. of the Poem, were the four following... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1839 - 320 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the apple-women's stalls away ! Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, He never lets the children play thereby. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even sí decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Mufle,... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...to stray : Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 20. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 21. Their name, their years, spell'd by the unletter'd... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...cool, sequester'd vale oflife. They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these Ь-т.ьз from insult to protect, Some frail memorial still...With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, 75 Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. ; Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd ' muse,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...tree, and many a stone, excite a pleasing melancholy, in regard to the tenants of this quiet spot : — Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect, Some...sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh, GRAV. If we climb the mountain, we behold a vast variety of scenery, from the base to the far distant... | |
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Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor... 
