 | Charles M. Bain - 1859 - 192 pages
...THE GEAVE OF DM MOIR (DELTA), IN INVEEESK CHURCHYARD. Oh ! blame them not, they do not err Who aay that, when the poet dies. Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequiea. (IB W. SCOTT. LONELY and low, in silent dust, Beneath that sod of waving green, Delta, thou... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1860 - 656 pages
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well-pleased, the Aged And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. CAM. it not vain: — they do not err, Who say, that, when...Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And <#lebrates his obsequies ; Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed bard make moaa; That... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...tongue, That He who died below, and reigns above, Inspires the song, and that his name is Love. COWPEE. Call it not vain; they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies, Mute nature mourna her worshiper, And celebrates his obsequies. SUOTT. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Poeoy serveth and conferretb to raagna, morality, and to delectation. Bacon. POET— Death of the. Call it not vain : they do not err, Who say that when...say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard may moan ; The mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his... | |
 | John G. Smith - English poetry - 1862 - 248 pages
...as much truth as poetic imagination in the fine stanzas of Sir Walter Scott in the " Lay of the Last Minstrel " : — " Call it not vain— they do not err Who say that when the poet dies, Mnte Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," &c. Shepherds with hearts so true,... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pages
...midnight the roll and clash of the sea-waves sound lullingly from below, and all around is peace. " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when...loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groans, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave." Nearly a mile... | |
 | 1863 - 886 pages
...midnight the roll and clash of the sea-waves sound lullingly from below, and all around is peace. " Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when...distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, Anil oaks, in deeper groans, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pages
...while it welcom'd the moment of rest, Still heaved, as remembering ills that were o'er. — Moore. Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed...bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill j That flow'rs in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1865 - 678 pages
...opposite and more comfortable doctrine is set up — or was, when the last minstrel sang his lay : Call it, not vain : — they do not err Who say that,...crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Thro' his loved grove that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1865 - 670 pages
...opposite and more comfortable doctrine is set up — or was, when the last miustrel sang his lay : Call it not vain :• — they do not err Who say...mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of bafin distil ; Thro' his loved grove that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers... | |
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CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers... 
