 | 1841 - 474 页
...name of HILLHOUSE will not be forgotten. May we not apply the beautiful words of a brother bard ? " Call it not vain : — they do not err, Who say, that, when a Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies; Who say, tall cliff,... | |
 | 1842 - 440 页
...Mississippi at the settlement of the United States. W. JoRjtsoy. Original. THE POET'S DEATH.* " 'Tie not vain— they do not err Who say that when the poet dira Muie nature mourns her worshiper, And celebrates his obsequies.'' UV-O» a stranger's couch His... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 页
...was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' addressed a Being whom he loved, and he spoke for...even the philosopher felt himself moved, and forgot groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groans, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To... | |
 | 1844 - 784 页
...reminded of the music of the other. The first is the opening couplet of one of the Cantos of the Lay — " Call it not vain : they do not err, Who say that when...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies." Mr. Bryant's are these — "Truth crushed to Earth shall rise again ; The eternal years of God are... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 500 页
...himself a lawyer, and a father, (which will appear in our next,) may open the way for romething hetter. Call it not vain— they do not err, Who say, that...POET dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celehrates his ohsequies. For the New Mirror. RECOLLECTlONS OF THE LATE TYRONE POWER. BEFORE I proceed... | |
 | 1844 - 628 页
...manner of lanes after bits of rock and stone, crushing every beautiful flower in your eagerness, is * " Call it not vain — they do not err Who say, that...the poet dies. Mute Nature mourns her worshipper. Tom (putting his hand over her mouth). Pray don't say what it is till I tell you of a young lady who... | |
 | 1894 - 854 页
...unknown future, what wonder if those solemn lines of a brother bard should have crossed his mind : — Call it not vain. They do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourus lier worshipper And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 页
...was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' ilute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone,... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 页
...Walter Scott, in his " Lay of the Last Minstrel," sung of the sorrow felt at a bard's decease ! — " Call it not vain — they do not err Who say that when a J'oet dies Mute nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies — Who say, tall cliff... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 页
...continued ran. 1 THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say, that...flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To... | |
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CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That... 
