 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...who die such deaths. Every one knows Mason's fine epitaph on his young wife in this very 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. The first place that I visited was connected with a far... | |
 | Benjamin Moran - Great Britain - 1853 - 446 pages
...poetry of England, and a repetition here, however trite it may appear, cannot impair their beauty:— " Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear: Take...best gift which heaven so lately gave; To Bristol's font I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form: she bowed to taste the wave, And died. Does youth,... | |
 | Rosalie Bell - English literature - 1855 - 462 pages
...Earth's sorrows weep, and think of Heaven. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BKISTOL. UZJiUiam 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 yonth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...the 7th, 1797, Aged 72. On Mrs. MASON, the wife of the poet, in Bristol Cathedral (by the Eev. Wm. Mason) :— " Take, holy earth ! all that my soul...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...smites the lyre: Hark, he sweeps the master-strings; Listen all. EPITAPH, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which heaven so lately gave: And died! Does youth, does beauty, read the line 1 Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm'! Speak,... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - Burial - 1858 - 450 pages
...from the tablet in Bristol Cathedral. It is very beautiful EPITAPH ON THE WIFE or THE KEV. WILLIAM MASON. 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 care Her faded form: she bowed to taste... | |
 | John Pierpont - Religious poetry - 1860 - 300 pages
...bliss receive : O ! do not lightly take away The life thou canst not give. EPITAPH ON MARY, THE WIFE OP THE REV. W. MASON. TAKE, holy earth, all that my soul...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 fear their... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...Cathedral. We quote the best of his minor poems. 304 EPITAPH ON MRS MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. 1 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... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...WIFE, IX TIIK CATHKDUAL OF BKi.STOL. TAKK, holy earth! all that my suiil holds dear : Take that Ix-st gift which Heaven so lately gave: To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form: she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. Does youth, Joes beauty read the line ? Docs sympathetic... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...expressive silence, muse His praise. 167 James Thrm*nn. ON HIS WIFE, IN THE CA.THEDEAL 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... | |
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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... 
