 | English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...— alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour,...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. ' Last noon beheld them lull of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
 | England - 1822 - 932 pages
...brave. Alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass, While now beneath them ; but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour,...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low." These verses, so much admired and so popular, are a good example of emotions which are the means of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...— alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour,...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this liery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...them , but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling 0ii the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...trodden like the grass Winch now beneath them, but aliove shall grow In its next verdure, when this ßery mass Of living valour , rolling on the foe And burning with high hope , shall moulder cold and law. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
 | John Edgecombe Daniel - Europe - 1820 - 532 pages
...now beneath them, but above shall grow In i is next verdure, when tins fiery mass Of living vuluur, rolling on the foe And. burning' with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life. Last ev« in beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...— alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour,...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but shove shall grow In its next verdure, when the fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...— alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour,...burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low. ' Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought... | |
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And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall... 
