 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 Seiten
..."How sleep the brave," personified Honour and Freedom coexist naturally with other "forms unseen": By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Dinah Courrier - 2000 - 134 Seiten
...to the memory of those 40 young men and one woman. The 195" Catamount yearbook is dedicated to them: "By fairy hands their knell is rung. By forms unseen their dirge is sung" — Ode by William Collins. MEMOR1AL HALL. Dr. 1-lizaheth Arwater Alexander. professor emeritus of... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 Seiten
...version of literality. The graves offer a sight nobler than any that imagination can figure: "[Spring] there shall dress a sweeter sod / Than Fancy's feet have ever trod" (5-6). In the second and closing stanza, that very absence of fancy enjoins a figurative supplement... | |
 | Abigail Adams, John Adams - 2002 - 438 Seiten
...cold Returns to deck their Hallowed mould She their shall dress a sweeter Sod Than fancys feet has ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung By forms unseen their Dirge is sung Their [There] Honour comes a pilgrim grey To Bless the turf that wraps their Clay And freedom shall a while... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 Seiten
...rest ULTIMATE By all their country's wishes blessed! MATTERS When Spring with dewy fingers cold 422 1 Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall...knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | John Adams - 2003 - 516 Seiten
...memory; those favorite lines of Collins continually sound in my ears: — "How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell... | |
 | John Adams - 2004 - 580 Seiten
...cold Returns to deck their Hallowed mould She their shall dress a sweeter Sod Than fancys feet has ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung By forms unseen their Dirge is sung Their [There] Honour comes a pilgrim grey To Bless the turf that wraps their Clay And freedom shall a while... | |
 | 248 Seiten
...Thomas she entitled "How Sleep the Brave" after William Collins's poem, with its reference to fairies: By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey. To bless the turf that wraps their clay . . . Lesley had been first... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 2006 - 361 Seiten
...strength he needs. rv THE HEROIC DEAD HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE BY WILLIAM COLLINS How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell... | |
 | Ralph Emerson Twitchell - 2007 - 417 Seiten
...country's wishes blest! When Spring, with demry fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung, There honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
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How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is... 
