 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 σελίδες
...my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, bat with the associations of the scene ; and that Ins style is occasionally stiff*, tu 1 Madam, good night ; may no discontent Grow 'twixt your lore and you ; but if there do, Inquire of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 σελίδες
...How is it, madam 1 Asp. Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm,...birth; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! Madam, good-night ; may no discontent Grow 'twixt your love and you ; but if there do, Inquire of... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 σελίδες
...MAID'S TRAGEDY." Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal fkvr; • Maidens willow branches bear, Say 1 died true. • My love was false, but I was firm,...• Upon my buried body, lie Lightly, gentle earth. FROM THE "LITTLE FRENCH LAWYEB." This way, this way, come and hear, You that hold these pleasures dear^... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 σελίδες
...precious as themselves. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm,...birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. FROM THE "LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER." This way, this way, come and hear, You that hold these pleasures dear... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 σελίδες
...THE " MAID'S TRAGEDY." Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens willow branches bear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm,...birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. FROM THE "LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER." This way, this way, come and hear, You that hold these pleasures dear;... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 σελίδες
...fourth lines of the subjoined stanza show what may be called the normal form of the measure: — " My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of...; Upon my buried body, lie Lightly, gentle earth." Long and short syllables (three long or accented) occur here in alternation, and compose the line in... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 524 σελίδες
...cpyresse and sad yewe ; For kinder flowers can take no birth Or growth from such unhappy earth. In " The Maid's Tragedy," a pathetic little air is introduced,...died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From mv hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. The natural effect of sorrow over... | |
 | 1853 - 560 σελίδες
...THE MAID'S TEAGEDY." LAY a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches bear ; Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth ! BEAUMONT AND FLKPCHER. SHELLEY. 363 SWIFJER far than summer's flight, Swifter far than youth's delight,... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 σελίδες
...«• CONSTANCY. T AY a garland on my hearse J-' Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say, I died true. My love was false, but I was firm...birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth! PICKLENESS. I COULD never have the power To love one above an hour, But my head would prompt mine eye... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1854 - 976 σελίδες
...madam r Asp. [singing.] Lay a garland on my hearso of the dismal yew ; Maidens, \villow-hranches bear ; say i died true. My love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth : Upon in) buried body lie« lightly, gentle earth ! Evad. Fie on it, madam ! the words are so strange, they... | |
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Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, 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! 
