 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 sider
...resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee,... | |
 | Henry James - 1999 - 440 sider
...our ashes live their wonted fires"': From Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 23: On some fond breast the parting soul relies Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. 301. 4.... | |
 | Stephanie Sandler - 1999 - 388 sider
...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; 90 Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires. For thee,... | |
 | Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 sider
...part from father, son, husband, or brother who would stay up here after the last visitors had gone. On some fond Breast the parting Soul relies, Some pious Drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the Tomb the Voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our Ashes live their wonted Fires. The sun set... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 sider
...poem is not about the lives lived or unlived, but about the need or desire for memorialization. On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries. Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. (lines 89-92)... | |
 | Paul S. Landau, Deborah D. Kaspin - 2002 - 408 sider
...observation about the relationship of discursive dependency between tombs and sympathetic mourners: "On some fond breast the parting soul relies, / Some pious drops the closing eye requires: / E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries" (11. 89—91). This crying out of the grave — one... | |
 | Henry James - 2003 - 1054 sider
...their wonted fires!'] From Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), lines 89-92 : "On some fond breast the parting soul relies, / Some pious drops the closing eye requires; / Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." 957.28... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 sider
...resigned. Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee who,... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 sider
...fulfills the enduring desire of the dead for remembrance. This is the stuff of Johnsonian community: On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. (89—gz)... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - 244 sider
...resign'd; Left the warm Precincts of the chearful Day, Nor cast one longing lingring Look behind? On some fond Breast the parting Soul relies, Some pious Drops the closing Eye requires; Even from the Tomb the Voice of Nature cries, And buried Ashes glow with Social Fires. But who was... | |
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The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 
