 | George B. Scott - 1842 - 354 pages
...the weary traveller. HE. " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, — E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." — GRAY. IT was in the hey-day of spring, amidst her thousand charms,... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...thought of Gray's Elegy : — " On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." The church is a good specimen of early fourteenth century architecture,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 522 pages
...? BY MRS. EDWARD THOMAS. On some fond breast the panting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. Gray. THE sorrow'd deail in the sepulchre sleep ! Oh ! are they, then,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Death - 1845 - 92 pages
...lingering look behind ? XXIII. On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries ; E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. . . VV- •I ..: K V. . .^1•w I..1 .V/. i•, I XXIV. For thce, who,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 460 pages
...BY MRS. EDWARD THOMAS. On sonic fond breast the panting soul relies, Borne pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. CUT. THE sorrowed dead in the sepulchre sleep ! Oh ! are they, then,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, .E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1846 - 514 pages
...and thus flourish in immortal youth, and may thus be recipients at the same time of men and angels. " E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." As we grow old, our sense of the value of time becomes vivid. Nothing... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...ling'ring look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eye requires : E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries ; . E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their... | |
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On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th... 
