 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pages
...yield God ever praise ; Content with hip, with haws, and brambleberry ; In contemplation passing still his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry : Who, when he dies, his tomb might be the bush Where harmless robin resteth with the thrush : —Happy were he ! R. Devereux, Earl... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1903 - 166 pages
...bramble-berry ; In contemplation spending all his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry : Where, when he dies, his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless robin dwells with gentle thrush." Cp. the first stanza of a chanson by Philippe Desportes (15161606): " 0 bien heureux qui peut passer... | |
 | 1903 - 400 pages
...bramble-berry; In contemplation spending all his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry: Where, when he dies, his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless robin dwells with gentle thrush '). ') Hannah : Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh and other Courtly Poets. Chapter XII. SPENSER. In Edmund... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1904 - 466 pages
...bramble-berry ; In contemplation spending all his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry : Where, when he dies, his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless robin dwells with gentle thrush. 1 Sir Walter Raleigh, on the other hand, when it suited his purpose, made use of Pastoralism, as the... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - 1904 - 516 pages
...bramble-berry ; In contemplation spending all his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry : Where, when he dies, his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless robin dwells with gentle thrush." Cp. the first stanza of a chanson by Philippe Desportes (15161606): " O bien heureux qui peut passer... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pages
...yield God ever praise; Content with hip, with haws, and brambleberry; In contemplation passing still his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry: Who, when he dies, his tomb might be the bush Where harmless robin resteth with the thrush: — Happy were he! Robert Devereux,... | |
 | Ella Fuller Maitland - 1907 - 276 pages
...bramble-berry ; In contemplation spending all his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry ; Where when he dies his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless Robin dwells with gentle Thrush. The Falcons hereabout are really Falcons-gentle, and would not, for the world, hurt or frighten any... | |
 | 1908 - 464 pages
...yield God ever praise; Content with hip, with haws, and brambleberry; In contemplation passing still his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry: Who, when he dies, his tomb might be the bush 10 Where harmless robin resteth with the thrush: — Happy were he I R. Devereux,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...bramble-berry ; In contemplation spending all his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry ; Where, when he dies, his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless Robin dwells with gentle thrush. ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL or ESSEX. 307. TOM BOWLING HEBE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling... | |
 | 1910 - 498 pages
...bramble-berry; In contemplation spending all his days, And change of holy thoughts to make him merry; Where, when he dies, his tomb may be a bush, Where harmless Robin dwells with gentle thrush. SIR HENRY WOTTON [J 568-16 jp] ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy... | |
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Who, when he dies, his tomb may be a bush Where harmless Robin dwells with gentle thrush. " Your majesty's exiled servant, 
