 Yet read the names that know not death ; Few nobler ones than Burns are there; And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair. His is that language of the heart In which the answering heart would speak, Thought, word, that bids the warm...  The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck - Halaman 233oleh James Grant Wilson - 1869 - 607 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | 1827 - 496 halaman
...down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions then, Despair — thy name is written on The roll of common men. There have been loftier themes than his, And longer...And lays lit up with Poesy's Purer and holier fires. N Yet read the names that know not death, — Few nobler ones than Burns are there, And few have won... | |
 | 1827 - 492 halaman
...down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions then, Despair — thy name is written on The roll of common men. There have been loftier themes than his, And longer...names that know not death, — Few nobler ones than Burns are there, And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair. His is that language... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1827 - 76 halaman
...down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions then, Despair — thy name is written on The roll of common men. There have been loftier themes than his, And longer...the names that know not death ; Few nobler ones than Burns are there ; And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair. His is that language... | |
 | 1829 - 436 halaman
...quality, and not the quantity of his works, he is entitled to a place which but few can hope to attain. " There have been loftier themes than his, And longer...And lays lit up with poesy's Purer and holier fires : *That he writes too little! Vet read the names that know not death ; Few nobler ones than his are... | |
 | 1830 - 472 halaman
...down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions, then, Despair—thy name is written on The roll of common men. There have been loftier themes than his, And longer...scrolls, and louder lyres, And lays lit up with poesy's Yet read the names that know not death, Few nobler ones than BURNS are there, And few have worn a greener... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 halaman
...than his, And longer scrolls, and louder lyres, And lays lit up with Poesy's Purer and holier tires; Yet read the names that know not death ; Few nobler ones than Burns are there; And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his Inn. His is that language... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 halaman
...down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions then, Despair — thy name is written on The roll of common men. There have been loftier themes than his, And longer...the names that know not death ; Few nobler ones than Burns are there ; And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair. His is that language... | |
 | 1836 - 268 halaman
...down Thy spirit's fluttering pinions then, Despair — thy name is written on The roll of common men. There have been loftier themes than his, And longer...names that know not death, — Few nobler ones than Burns are there, And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair. His is that language... | |
 | 1836 - 802 halaman
...and brief — We've crossed the winter sea, and thou Art withered— flower and leaf. There hare bien loftier themes than his, And longer scrolls and louder lyres And lays lit up with Poesyjs Purer and holier fires. And when he breathes liis master-lay Of Allaitais witch-hmmted wall... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 halaman
...His monument — that tells to heaven The homage of earth's proudest isle To that bard-peasant given. ly song is the composition of Bishop Percy, the Burns are there, And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair. His is that language... | |
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