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" Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall... "
Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 168
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery: Including ..., Volume 6

James Montgomery, John Holland - 1856 - 350 pages
...applied to the portion that will exist of the productions of Burns : — " ' Your monument shall be your gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read...rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead.' I have not been niggardly in my praise, nor yet in my censure ; for there are portions of his works...
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Etudes de littérature ancienne & étrangeère

Villemain (M.) - Classical literature - 1854 - 410 pages
...1. Your uame from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gdne to, ail the world must die : Your monument shall be my gentle verse , Which eyes...And tongues to be , your being shall rehearse , When ail the breathers of this world are dead. Sonnet LXXXI. î. "Tis better to be vile , than vile esteem'd...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...immortal life shall have, Tho' I once gone to all the world must die ; The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie....my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er -read ; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are...
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The Poems of William Shakespear

William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pages
...life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie....verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read ; * Malone conjectures that the allusion here is to Spenser. And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse,...
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Sonnets, by Feltham Burghley

Charles Augustus Ward - 1855 - 208 pages
...as I have styled him. It is this which justifies him in that ambitious apostrophe to his mistress : You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes e'en in the mouths of men. It is absurd to designate this quality as naturalness, of the two, it is more allied...
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Friendship's Offering

Gift books - 1855 - 354 pages
...and dwell in lover's eyes. The last six lines of the 81st sonnet are perhaps still more strong : — Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes, not yet created, shall o'er rend ; And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse; — When all the breathers of this world...
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The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and the Earl of Surrey

William Shakespeare, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 364 pages
...life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie....(such virtue hath my pen,) Where breath most breathes, — even in the mouthsof men, LXXXII. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, And therefore may'st...
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The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with ..., Volume 11

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 424 pages
...all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's rfyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse,...shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes,—even in the mouths of I grant thou wert not married to my muse, And therefore mayst without...
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Cambridge examination papers: a suppl. to the University calendar, 1856-59

Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie....rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead ; Yon still shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes, — even in the mouths...
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Grace and Remembrance: Poems

G. Gerard - 1856 - 110 pages
...matchless powers, Didst thou submit To death, and quit This earth that claim'd thee for awhile ; * "Tour monument shall be my gentle verse Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read." And that inconstant April day That had beheld thine earliest smile, Look'd on thy lifeless clay. For thou...
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