 To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherd lads assemble here, And...  Anthologia oxoniensis - Page 62edited by - 1846 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1839 - 66 pages
...&c 39 Inscription — for a Mausoleum 40 METRICS. Dirge in Cymbeline.— COLLINS. To fair Fidèle' s grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring...assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1839 - 390 pages
...little store the reader will set by all that I have here written after perusing them. " To fair.Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring...dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove, But shepherd-lads assemble here, And tender virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...SONG, • BUNG BY GUIDERIU8 AND ARVIRAGU8 OVER FIDELE, SUPPOSE1] TO BE DEAD. BY MR. WILLIAM COLLINS. To fair Fidele's grassy tomb, Soft maids and village...earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wailing ghost shall dare appear,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...there shall the cowslip and primrose be cast, And the tears of her country shall water her tomb. * ' Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring.' Collins's Dirge in Cymbeline. LINES ATTRIBUTED TO DR. GOLDSMITH, INSERTED IN THE MORNING CHRONICLE... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...there shall the cowslip and primrose be cast, And the tears of her country shall water her tomb. * ' Each opening sweet of earliest bloom. And rifle all the breathing spring.' Coilins's Dirge in Cymbeiine. LINES ATTRIBUTED TO DR. GOLDSMITH, INSERTED IN THE MORNING CHRONICLE... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...And, with what kindred beauty, has Collins embodied these thoughts in the song beginning with, — " To fair Fidele's grassy tomb, Soft maids and village...earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring." Shirley has a very touching allusion to the same practice in the " Traytor." The allusion, we hardly... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...Shakespeare [1564-1616] DIRGE IN CYMBELINE Sung by Guldens and Amracus ma Fidde, supposed la be dead on No wailing ghost shall dare appear, To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherd lads assemble... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...Goldsmith's " We'll rifle the spring of its earliest bloom " (Threnodia Augustalis, Pt. II) and Collins's: Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring. be too low for their merits, or unnecessary to make them more known." ' How widely different from Johnson's... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...abstract virtues. Maids and youths shall linger here, says Collins of Thomson's resting-place, just as for Fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each op'ning sweet, of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing Spring. And in the ode on Thomson, as... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...Dirge in Cymbeline Sung by Guiderius and Arviragus over Fidele, supposed to be dead. To fair Fidele 's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring...assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither 'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt... | |
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