 Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays...  The Village magazine - Page 3331839Full view - About this book
 | Robert William Browne - Greece - 1856 - 464 pages
...following is a wellknown translation, was written to his memory by Simmias, the Theban poet : — " Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the...where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs to intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine. Thus will thy lasting leaves, with beauties... | |
 | Anthologia Graeca, Greek Anthology - 1856 - 116 pages
...graces : Straight's the word for honest paces ! ' DK Bandford. EPIGRAMMATA. PAGE 71.— IV. Winde, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy winde thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustring vine : Thus will thy lasting... | |
 | James Shirley Hibberd - 1858 - 402 pages
...Sophocles was garlanded with ivy and Roses, for the beautiful epitaph by Simonides asserts as much: — "Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the...clustering vine. Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauty long Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung." Homer, Euripides, Virgil, and Milton, were all enamoured... | |
 | Henry Stafford Osborn - Palestine - 1859 - 648 pages
...written by Simonides : — " Wind, gentle evergreens, to form a simile Around the tomb where Suphocles is laid ; Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine: So shall thy lasting leaves, with beauty hung, Prove a fit emblem of the lays he sung." HORRORS OF... | |
 | 626 pages
...sufficeret orbis." 140 Epitaphs. Nor can we however omit a version of Shnmias' epitaph on Sophocles : Wind gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy lend thine aid, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine : Thus shall thy lasting... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...sentiment so beautifully expressed in the epitaph of Sophocles, the founder of Grecian tragedy : " Wind gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the...Sophocles is laid ; Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs and intertwiuo With blushing roses and the clustering vine ; So shall thy lasting leaves, with beauty hung,... | |
 | Wilson Flagg - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1861 - 446 pages
...the bourn Where, in thy presence, I shall cease to mourn. By Simmias of Thebes : — ON SOPHOCLES. Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade Around the...With blushing roses and the clustering vine. Thus shall thy lasting leaves, with beauties hung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he sung. By Speusippus... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 632 pages
...to form a shade Around tbe tomb where Sophocles is laid; Sweet Ivy, wind thy boughs and int,rtwino With blushing roses and the clustering vine; Thus will thy lasting leaves with beauties bung, Prove grateful emblems of the lays he snog, Whose soul exalted by the god of wit, Among... | |
 | 1863 - 636 pages
...illustrious dead then existed : — Wind gentle evergreen to form a shado Around the tomb whore SopliocJe.s is laid. Sweet ivy, wind thy boughs, and intertwine With blushing roses and the clustering vine ; So shall thy lasting leaves, with beauty hung, Prove a üt emblem of the days he sung. This custom,... | |
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