| Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...sun look'd smiling bright, O'er a wide and woful sight, Where the fires of funeral light Died away. Now joy, Old England, raise ! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, While the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...sun look'd smiling bright, O'er a wide and woful sight, Where the fires of funeral light Died away. Now joy, Old England, raise ! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, While the wine-cup shines in light; And yet amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that sleep,... | |
| English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...sun look'd smiling bright O'er a wide and woeful sight, Where the fires of fun'ral light Died away. Now joy, old England, raise! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, While the wine cup shines in light; And yet amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that sleep... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1828 - 258 pages
...look'd smiling bright O'er a wide and woeful sight, Where the fires of fun'ral light Died away. VII. Now joy, old England, raise! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, While the wine cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...sun look'd smiling bright O'er a wide and woeful sight, Where the fires of funeral light Died away. Now joy, Old England, raise ! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, While the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet, amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 250 pages
...looked smiling bright O'er a wide and woful sight, Where the fires of funeral light Died away.— vn. Now joy, old England, raise! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, While the wine cup shines in light; And yet amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that sleep,... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...sun looked smiling bright O'er a wide and woful sight, Where the fires of funeral light Died away. Now joy, old England, raise For the tidings of thy...steep, Elsinore! Brave hearts! to Britain's pride Once so faithful and so true, On the deck of fame that died With the gallant, good Riou : Soft sigh the... | |
| John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier - 1882 - 248 pages
...is mentioned in the sixth chapter of the second volume of THE PILOT, by the author of The Pioneers. "Let us think of them that sleep Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore." THY cruise is over now Thou art anchored by the shore, And never more shalt thou i' Hear the storm... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...smiling bright O'er a wide and woful sight, Where the fires of funeral light Died away. — . . -. Now joy, Old England, raise ! For the tidings of thy might, By the festal cities' blaze, While the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that... | |
| Phrenology - 1832 - 700 pages
...allusion to their accompanying horrors : " And yet amid the joy and uproar, Oh, think of those who sleep Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore." Society proceeds under the habitual impression, that " the pride and pomp of glorious war " are the... | |
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