No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew ! The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gather'd... The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 241by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
| William Collins, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1765 - 210 pages
...pearly dew I Tlic red-breaft oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid. With hoary mofs, and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou...art laid. When howling winds, and beating rain* In tcmpefts fhake the fylvan cell ; Or Vnidit the chace on every plain, The tender thought on due fhall... | |
| William Collins - English poetry - 1781 - 200 pages
...pearly dew; The red-breaft oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary mofs, and gather'd flowers,. To deck the ground where thou...art laid. When howling winds, and beating rain, In tempefts fhake the fylvan cell ; Or 'midft the enact- on every plain, The tender thought on thee fhall... | |
| Ballads, English - 1783 - 360 pages
...pearly dew ! The The rcd-brcaft oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary mofs, and gather'd flowers. To deck the ground where thou...art laid. When howling winds, and beating rain, In tempefts fhake the fylvan cell ; Or 'raidft the chace on every plain, The tender thought on thee fha.ll... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 582 pages
...their nightly crew : The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew. 4The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered Jlowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When When howling winds, and beating raint... | |
| 1794 - 954 pages
...t'e Í-.Í "r. The red-bread oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend hiïlittle aid. With hoary mofs, and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou...art laid. When howling winds, and beating rain, In tempefts (hake thy fylvan cell ; Or 'midft the chafe on every plain, The tender thought on thee (hall... | |
| British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...red-breaft oft, at ev'ning hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary mofs and gather'd ftow'rs, To deck the ground where thou art laid. When howling winds and beating rain, In tempefts, fhake the fylvan cell, Or 'midft the chafe, on ev'ry plain, The tender thought on thee fhall... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...pearly dew ; The red-bread oft at evening liourj '•bull kindly lend his little aid, With hoary mofs, and gather'd flowers, To deck the ground where thou...art laid. When howling winds, and beating rain, In temperts (hake thy fylvan cell ; Or 'midd the chace on every plain, The tender thought on thee fhall... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...Dirge in Cymbeline:" " The female fays shall haunt the green, " And dress thy grave with pearly dew ; " The redbreast oft, at evening hours, " Shall kindly...lend his little aid, " With hoary moss and gather'd ftow'rs, " To deck the ground where thou art laid." No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...Superstitions of the Highland it * The beautiful and tender imagery in a stanza of this little dirgi The Red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid. has been so much a favorite with the poets... | |
| William Collins - Fore-edge paintings - 1802 - 206 pages
...lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew ; The red-breast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend...In tempests shake the sylvan cell ; Or 'midst the chase on every plain, The tender thought on thee shall dwell. Each lonely scene shall thee restore,... | |
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