 | John Yonge Akerman - 1850 - 242 str.
...superstition. In an old play the wren is made to join in this pious office : — " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flow'rs do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." The fondness of the robin for his summer haunts... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 str.
...seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates : — Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the fleld-monse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And, when gray tombs are... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1852 - 502 str.
...old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630 — 1638, says:— " Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Michael Dray ton too alludes to it: — " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye, The little redbreast... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 str.
...several old writers. Thus, John Webster, who wrote in 1630-38, says : — " Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,...leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of enburied men." Michael Drayton too alludes to it : — " Covering with moss the dead's unclos'd eye,... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 290 str.
...His personal history is buried in obscurity.] THE WHITE DEVIL; OR, V1TTORIA COROMBONA. l6l2. A DIRGE. CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm; • But... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 str.
...His personal history is buried in obscurity.] THE WHITE DEVIL; OR, VITTORIA COROMBONA. 1612. ADIRQ E. for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm; But keep... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 str.
...that intenseness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates." CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1857 - 424 str.
..." Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren,^ [CORNELIA doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillochs that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm : But keep... | |
 | John Webster - 1857 - 296 str.
...Cor. Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, [Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves...funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm ; But keep... | |
 | John Webster - 1857 - 298 str.
...the wren, [Cornelia doth this in several forms of distraction. Since o'er shady groves they Jiover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dolt The ant, theßeld-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when... | |
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Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall... 
