 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 páginas
...bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved. WILLIAM MASON. Born, 1725 ; Died, 1797. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear...Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form. She bow'd to taste the wave— And died. Does Youth, does Beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 páginas
...glasses, The grace be—" Athol's honest men, And Athol's bonnie lasses!" EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. BUBNS, TAKE, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form; she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does youth, does beauty, read the line? 5 Does sympathetic... | |
 | Mottoes - 1872 - 186 páginas
...realms above, Smile on the object of thy earthly love. Montmartre Cemetery, Paris. DEATH OF A WIFE. Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear; Take...fount I bore with trembling care, Her faded form—she bow'd to taste the wave, And died ! Does youth, does beauty read the line ? 48 DEA TH OF A WIFE. Does... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - 214 páginas
...and so do I. 95. From Bristol Cathedral. the Rev. William Mason, the distinguished Poet —1767 :— Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear; Take that best gift, which Heav'n so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling tear, Her faded form ; she bowed to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 páginas
...this last kind but in the former; namely of failure from various causes where the ground-work is good. Take holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care, Her faded form. She bow'd to taste the wave— And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 páginas
...That ancient city, sits ! William Lisle Bowles. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. TAKE, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear; Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form; she bowed to taste the wave, And died! Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic... | |
 | Reginald Walter Corlass - 1879 - 188 páginas
...The following touching and sympathetic epitaph will best show Mason's feelings on this occasion:— " Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 páginas
...York Cathedral. We the best of his minor poems. 304 EPITAPH ON MRS MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OP BRISTOL. Take, holy earth! all that my soul holds dear: Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form; she bowed to taste the wave, And died. Does youth, does beauty, read the line? Does sympathetic... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 páginas
...dawned from Bullen's eyes. WILLIAM MASON. [1725-1797 EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, In the Cathedral of Bristol. Take, holy Earth ! all that my soul holds dear ! Take that best gift, which Heaven so lately gave. . . . Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm ? Speak, dead... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1883 - 540 páginas
...Every one knows (or ought to know) Mason's fine epitapli on his young wife, in Bristol Cathedral: " Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear! Take...Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to taste the wave— And died!" One of the finest homilies on riches ever given was... | |
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THE REV. W. MASON. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear; Take that best gift, which Heaven so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form—she how'd to taste the wave, And died ! Does youth, does beauty read the... 
