 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!  Calendar - Page 353by University of Cambridge - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...Songs, 1790, p. 197, from the Maid's Tragedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher, 1619 : " Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches...birth: Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!" In Poole's English Parnassus, the yew has the epithets of " warlick, dismal, fatal, mortal, venemous,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...disappointed in love: Lay a garland on my heaue, Of the dismall yew, Maidens, willow branches wear, Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm,...birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth. The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind; and we have a proof of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...songs, madam. Atp. Believe me, 'tis a rery pretty one. Emd. How is it, madam ! Asp. Lay a garland on my hen summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their bat I was firm, From my hour of birth ; Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle .earth 1 Madam, good... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...songs, madam. Asp. Believe me, 'tis a pretty one. Evad. How is it, madam 1 Asp. Lay a garland on my hearse Of the dismal yew ; Maidens, willow branches...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 - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...dusky mine, but incorporate with the golden ore as rich and precious as themselves. Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens willow branches...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 - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...the golden ore as rich and precious as themselves. FROM THE " MAID'S TRAGEDY." Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens willow branches...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 - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...golden ore as rich and precious as themselves. FROM THE " MAID'S TRAGEDY." Lay a garland on my hears*, Of the dismal yew ; Maidens willow branches bear,...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... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...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... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...milk, in milk it was so white. DRUMMOND OF HIWTHOENDEN. FROM " THE MAID'S TEAGEDY." LAY a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew, Maidens, willow branches...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,... | |
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