 | Ezra Stiles Gannett - Consolation - 1837 - 264 pages
...and the lot of nature. "Not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone. * * * Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise and good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed... | |
 | David Willard - Greenfield (Mass.) - 1838 - 210 pages
...of care plod on, All shall leave their mirth, and their employments, And make their bed with thee. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings. Earth that nourished thee shall claim thy growth, To be resolved to earth, to mix forever with the... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...and pierce thy mold. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With...Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulcher. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1839 - 346 pages
...e'ep the tears they wake Shall then be blest, for that high nature's sake. THE DEPARTED. " Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore ? — Earth's mightiest... | |
 | American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...and pierce thy mould Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone; nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of... | |
 | Oratory - 1840 - 452 pages
...and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone ; nor coutdst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With...Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive... | |
 | Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...pierce thy mould ; Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With...Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past ; All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...pierce thy mould. Yet not to thy eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone ; — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shall lie down With...Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 344 pages
...e'en the tears they wake Shall then be blest, for that high nature's sake. THE DEPARTED. "Thou shah lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore? — Earth's mightiest... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 350 pages
...e'en the tears they wake Shall then be blest, for that high nature's sake. THE DEPARTED. "Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with...Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre." BRYANT. AND shrink ye from the way To the spirit's distant shore ? — Earth's mightiest... | |
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Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world - with kings, The powerful of the earth - the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers... 
