 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 σελίδες
...control, as in the perfectly wrought "Ode" written in the beginning of 1746: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 σελίδες
...gentlest influence own, And hymn thy favourite name! HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Retums to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 σελίδες
...his poems, such as How sleep the brave, have become very well known. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. (Ode Written... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 σελίδες
...version of literality. The graves offer a sight nobler than any that imagination can figure: "[Spring] there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod" (5-6). In the second and closing stanza, that very absence of fancy enjoins a figurative supplement... | |
 | John Adams - 2003 - 516 σελίδες
...memory; those favorite lines of Collins continually sound in my ears: — "How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 2006 - 361 σελίδες
...strength he needs. rv THE HEROIC DEAD HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE BY WILLIAM COLLINS How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 2007 - 401 σελίδες
...tlieir country's wishes West. When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod : By forms unseen, their dirge is sung ; By fairy hands, their knell is rung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim... | |
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 
