 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1847 - 208 pages
...my tale with care, A tale of what Rome once hath borne, Of what Rome yet may bear. Anapestic Verse. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest : The autumn winds rushing, Waft the leaves that are sourest, But our flower was in... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 1848 - 56 pages
...thou art not of those That wait the ripened bloom, to seize their prey. Mrs. Hemans. IV. FUNERAL SONG. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest ! The font, reappearing, From the rain drops shall borrow ; But to us comes no cheering,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 306 pages
...vacancy ; Thus, motionless, and moanless, drew His parting breath, stout Roderick Dhu ! f THE CORONACH.} He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, » The Minstrel. f " Rob Roy, while on his deathbed, learned that a person, with whom he was at enmity,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...Queen' !" Formula xxa 2+. In the following lines there are two Anapests and an additional syllable. means was the sorest : Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river; Like the bubble on the fountain,... | |
 | James O'Connell - Civilization - 1851 - 436 pages
..."sublime old Erse" idiom, by Scott in the lament of Khenach (§ 79) over the dead body of Duncan. " He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest ; Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest." The words in italics imply now, of course, the death of the lamented ; but they still... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...weeps, but knows not why The village maids and matrons round The dismal coronach resound. CORANACH. He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest The font, re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow But to us comes no cheering,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...journeyings of the sun, Where streams of living waters run. LESSON LXXV. Coronach. — SIR W. SCOTT. 1. HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering,... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1852 - 356 pages
...is lost to love and me. HE IS GONE ON THE MOUNTAIN. 8i» WAITKR SCOTT. From the " Lady of tho Lake." HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall... | |
 | Ballads, Scots - 1854 - 356 pages
...is lost to love and me. HE IS GONE ON THE MOUNTAIN. SIE WALTEE SCOTT. From the " Lady of the Lake." HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, re-appearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow ; But to us comes no cheering,... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...and yon majestic heaven Shines not the less for that one vanished star ! CORONACH.*— Sir W. Scott. HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The fount, reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering,... | |
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He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font reappearing, From the rain-drops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow ! The hand of the reaper Takes the... 
