 | Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...then, expressive silence, muse His praise. James Thomson. ON HIS WIFE, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : Take...the wave, And died. Does youth, does beauty read the liue ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm? Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine : E'en... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...old man bowed his reverend head, And laid him down to die ! " Rev. CW Everest. MASON'S ELEGY. " TAKK, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take that...fount I bore, with trembling care Her faded form, she bow'd to taste the wave, Speak, dead Maria ! breathe a strain divine, Even from the grave thou shalt... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...glasses, The grace be — "Athol's honest men, And Athol's bonnie lasses !" BURNS. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take...fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bow'd to taste the ware, And died. Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? 5 Does sympathetic fear... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved. WILLIAM MASON. Born, 1725 ; Died, 1797. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear ; Take...fount I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form. She bow'd to taste the wave — And died. Does Youth, does Beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic Fear... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved. WILLIAM MASON. Born, 1725 ; Died, 1797. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON. TAKE, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear; Take...fount I bore, with trembling care, Her faded form. She bow'd to taste the wave— And died. Does Youth, does Beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic Fear... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...who die such deaths. Every one knows Mason's fine epitaph on his young wife in this very cathedral: Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear, Take...faded form : she bowed to taste the wave And died. The first place that I visited was connected with a far deeper tragedy, the beautiful church of St.... | |
 | Mottoes - Epitaphs - 1872 - 186 pages
...realms above, Smile on the object of thy earthly love. Montmartre Cemetery, Paris. DEATH OF A WIFE. Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear ; Take...I bore with trembling care, Her faded form — she bow'd to taste the wave, And died ! Does youth, does beauty read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BEISTOL. Toko, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take that beet et n bow'd to taste the wave, And died ! Does yonth, does beauty, read the line? Does sympathetic fear their... | |
 | William Fairley - Burial - 1875 - 208 pages
...Cathedral. On the monument of MRS. MASON, wife of the Rev. William Mason, the distinguished Poet —1767:— Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear ; Take that best gift, which Heav'n so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling tear, Her faded form ; she bowed to... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - 214 pages
...Cathedral. On the monument of MR?. MASON, wife of the Rev. William Mason, the distinguished Poet —1767:— Take, holy earth, all that my soul holds dear ; Take that best gift, which Heav'n so lately gave. To Bristol's fount I bore, with trembling tear, Her faded form ; she bowed to... | |
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Take, holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear: Take that best gift which Heaven so lately gave : To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bow'd to taste the wave, And died. 
