 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 páginas
...village scholar : — " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The red-breast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. " Such, then, were the melancholy, but gentle reveries of the poet, to whom we must now bid STANZAS... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - 1866 - 656 páginas
...village scholar: — " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The red-breast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Such, then, were the melancholy but gentle reveries of the poet, to whom we must now bid farewell in... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1866 - 232 páginas
...breadth of the composition : There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The red-breast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly tread the ground. This circumstance of flowers strewn upon a grave by " bands unseen," is the most... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 páginas
...scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found : The redbreast lotes to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — (There they... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 páginas
...lead their nightly crew ; There scatter' d oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found, The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. Stanza thrown out of his Elegy by GRAY. The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 750 páginas
...shall sing again : — 'a There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found: The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly trip the ground." The dictates of humanity and the instincts of self-preservation demand of us a vigorous... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 756 páginas
...:— '•There scattered oft, the e.-irliest of the year, I5y hands unseen, are showers (if vinlets found: The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly trip the gnumd." The dictates of humanity and the instincts of self-preservation demand of us a vigorous... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 páginas
...beneath yon aged thorn. There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." GAKLAXD. 275 THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 páginas
...included, were excluded by the author's fastidious taste from the printed version, eg There scatter' d oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. The stanza in which this poem was written, and its peculiar cadence, were probably suggested to Gray... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1911 - 300 páginas
...before the epitaph : — ' There scatter' d oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.' One must not blame a poet for what he has deleted ; but what are we to think of the poetical standard... | |
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There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground... 
