| Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 lapas
...disappointed in love : Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismall yew, Maidens, willow branches wear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth." The natural effect of sorrow over the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 lapas
...disappointed in lovo. Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew. Maidens willow branches wear, Say 1 died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. The natural effect of sorrow over the... | |
| John Dennis - 1883 - 430 lapas
...close his eyes." In eight peerless lines Fletcher sings the deathsong of a maid dying for love. li Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens,...true. " My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! " Another illustration of Fletcher's... | |
| John Dennis - 1883 - 426 lapas
...to close his eyes." In eight peerless lines Fletcher sings the deathsong of a maid dying for love. " Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew, Maidens,...true. " My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! " Another illustration of Fletcher's... | |
| English lyrics - 1883 - 340 lapas
...Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! LXVIII. ASPATIA'S SONG. LAY a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens,...died true; My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! THOMAS MIDDLETON, LXIX. t5801-t627.... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 lapas
...but incorporate with the golden ore as rich and precious as themselves. PROM THE "MAID'S TRAGEDY." Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens...died true. My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. JROM THK " LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER." This... | |
| Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 lapas
...Aspatia who speaks the lines which have become so well known as a little ballad of forsaken love — "Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens,...true. " My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie, Lightly, gentle earth ! " 278 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. [CHAP.... | |
| Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 lapas
...not the cooks. Sir John Harrington, ONSTANCY. LAY a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maideos, willow branches bear ; Say, I died true. My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! Samuel Fkft/itr, 1576-1625. II WEEP... | |
| Robert Williams Buchanan - 1884 - 272 lapas
...dead. CHAPTER XXX. IN PARIS. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow gardens bear ; Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. — The Maid's Tragedy. PROFESSOR MAPLELEAFE... | |
| Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 lapas
...Tragedy ' : — " Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal Yew ; Maidens, Willow branches bear ; Say that I died true. My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly gentle earth." . It was an old English custom, at the... | |
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