 | 1829 - 642 pages
...flowers Stand in their beauty by ; The oriole should build, and tell His love-tale close beside in y cell ; The idle butterfly Should rest him there, and...wild music flow ; But if, around my place of sleep, Thf friends I loved should come to weep, They might not haste to go ; — Soft airs, and song, and... | |
 | 1829 - 514 pages
...light, Betrothed lovers walk in sight Of my low monument, — I would the lovely scene around Alight know no sadder sight nor sound. " I know, I know I...music flow ; But if, around my place of sleep, The friend» I loved should come to weep, They might not haste to go ; — Soft airs, and song, and light,... | |
 | 1829 - 520 pages
...see The season's glorious show, Nor would its brightness shine for me, Nor its v, i lil music floiv ; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I loved...come to weep, They might not haste to go ;— Soft ain, and song, and light, and bloom, Should keep them ling'rtng by my tomb. " These to their soften'd... | |
 | 1832 - 598 pages
...know, I know I should not see The season's glorious show, Nor would its brightness shine for jaae, Nor its wild music flow ; But, if around my place of sleep The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pages
...were, to the surface of the poet's gay sayings about his grave, which we find thrilling us to the soul. And what if cheerful shouts, at noon, Come, from the...¡ But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 286 pages
...noon, Come from the village sent, Or songs of maids, beneath the moon, With fairy laughter blent 1 And what if, in the evening light, Betrothed lovers...; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 pages
...laughter blent ? And what if, in the evening light, Betrothed lovers walk in sight Of my low monument 1 I would the lovely scene around Might know no sadder...; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should... | |
 | 1837 - 790 pages
...Of my low monument? I would the lovely scene around Might know no sadder sight nor sound. I know, 1 know I should not see The season's glorious show,...; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 pages
...; The idle butterfly Should rest him there, and there be heard The housewife-bee and humming-bird. And what if cheerful shouts, at noon, Come from the...; But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Should... | |
 | 1841 - 300 pages
...touching lines of Bryant: — ' I know, I know, I shall not see The season's glorious show, Nor will its brightness shine for me, Nor its wild music flow ; But if around my place of sleep The friends I love shall come to weep, They may not haste to go ; Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom, Will... | |
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And what if cheerful shouts at noon Come, from the village sent, Or songs of maids, beneath the moon With fairy laughter blent? And what if, in the evening light, Betrothed lovers walk in sight Of my low monument? 
