 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 lapas
...to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates." A DIRGE. 1 Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men : Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 668 lapas
...quoted in the preceding note : " Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady grove they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of uuburied men." Drayton, also, has it, evidently in imitation of Shakespeare: " Covering with mans the... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1877 - 456 lapas
...winter-ground thy corse." In Webster's White Devil, act v., we read:— " Call for the robin red breast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover And...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The critics suppose Webster to have imitated Shakespere here, but there is no ground for any such supposition.... | |
 | Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - 1877 - 638 lapas
...watery ; so this is of the earth, earthy." '• Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since over shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole ; To rear him hillocks that shall... | |
 | 1923 - 1004 lapas
...him — a child of Nature — a bird in the bush was worth two in the hand. Then there is Webster's Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. The natural history is fantastic enough, but the lines keep fresh the old legend which must have its... | |
 | Owen Wister - 1972 - 276 lapas
...change or two I wrote them as deep as I could with my pencil upon a small board that he smoothed for me. "Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with flowers and leaves do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call to this funeral dole The ant,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 lapas
...Here, for instance, are ten quaint lines worthy almost of Shakspeare : — Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodiei of nnburicd men. Call unto his funcrnl dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1892 - 988 lapas
..." Call for the robin - redbreast and the wren, [Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... | |
 | George Steiner - 1996 - 340 lapas
...given in pasture to birds of prey. But the famous dirge in Webster's The White Devil instructs us to Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Indeed, in Webster's invocation—and he was a master of the ceremonies of death—the actual animals... | |
 | Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence - 1997 - 262 lapas
...covers the bodies of two young children with leaves is expressed in John Webster's familiar lines: Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. (Hazlitt 1905, 2: 520) 41 V Christmas card... | |
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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
