 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 sider
...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 - 1865 - 678 sider
...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 - 1865 - 670 sider
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 sider
...Poet's ear : A simple race ! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. Canto iv. Stanza 85. Call it not vain ; — they do not err, Who say, that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. Canto v. Stanza 1. True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 sider
...Nature herself may be said, in his own beautiful lines, to do homage to the memory of his muse : — Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that when...And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach the rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave, v 18; In his Rokebv we have this tine song : —... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 sider
...short-lived blaze. Smiled then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain :— they do not err. Who say, that,...balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes eigh. And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 sider
...short-lived blaze. Smiled, then, well-pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. CANTO FIFTH. CALL it not vain :— they do not err, Who say, that...departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal nl ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in... | |
 | T. P. Grinsted - 1867 - 340 sider
...almost completely overgrown with foliage, while a number of fine trees have sprung up among the ruins. " 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." Lay of the Last... | |
 | T. P. Grinsted - 1867 - 340 sider
...have his shrine, in the midst of objects which iuvoked his minstrelsy, and which remember his loss : " Call it not vain : they do not err Who say that, when...balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigli, And oaks in deeper groan reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 sider
...of imagining the objects of inanimate nature deploring over the loss of their fervent admirer : — Call it not vain. They do not err Who say that when...weep in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distill, Through his lov'd groves that breezes sigb, And oaks, in deeper groans, 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... 
