| Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over tlie unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. ' Last noon beheld them lull of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
| England - 1822 - 932 pages
...inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. Alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass, While now beneath them ; but above shall grow In its next...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low." These verses, so much admired and so popular, are a good example of emotions which are the means of... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now...but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this liery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...e'er grieves, Over the uureturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass "YVJiich now beneath them , but above shall grow In its next...verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling 0ii the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon beheld them full... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...trodden like the grass Winch now beneath them, but aliove shall grow In its next verdure, when this ßery mass Of living valour , rolling on the foe And burning with high hope , shall moulder cold and law. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
| John Edgecombe Daniel - Europe - 1820 - 532 pages
...tear-drops as they pass, Qrieving, if aught inanimate e'er griev«s, Over the unrotuvning brave — alas '. Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In i is next verdure, when tins fiery mass Of living vuluur, rolling on the foe And. burning' with high... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but shove shall grow In its next verdure, when the fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And... | |
| William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave,—alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought... | |
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