 HERE would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot Which I have long mark'd out to lay my bones in; Tired out and wearied with the riotous world, Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred. It is a lovely spot...  Old and New Nottingham - Page 172by William Howie Wylie - 1853 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1873 - 868 pages
...Lines written in Wilford Churchyard, on Recovery from Sickness." LINES WRITTEN IN WILFORD CHUKCTIYAED. Here would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot "Which I have long markM out to lay my bones in ; Tir'd out and wearied with the riotous world, Beneath this Yew I would... | |
 | 1884 - 920 pages
...bones to lie after his earthly pilgrimage should close, I sat and read his most solemn prayer : 11 Here would I wish to sleep. This is the spot Which I have long mark'd out to lay my banes in : Tired out and wearied with the riotous world, Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred." Swathed... | |
 | Humanities - 1916 - 488 pages
...resting place. In a mood of quiet English feeling he could write of a commonplace English burial-ground, "Here would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot Which I have long marked out to lay my bones in; Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred. It is a lovely spot!" etc."... | |
 | John Benjamin Firth - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1916 - 482 pages
...Spencer Hall in 1846, and the lines have more real poetry in them than Kirke White's oft-quoted verses. Here would I wish to sleep. This is the spot Which I have long marked out to lay my bones in : Tired out and wearied with the riotous world, Beneath this yew I would... | |
 | Edna Pearle Osborne Whitcomb - Comparative literature - 1916 - 174 pages
...resting place. In a mood of quiet English feeling he could write of a commonplace English burial-ground, "Here would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot Which I have long marked out to lay my bones in; Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred. It is a lovely spot!" etc."... | |
 | 1922 - 446 pages
...resting place. In a mood of quiet English feeling he could write of a commonplace English burial-ground, "Here would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot Which I have long marked out to lay my bones in; Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred. It is a lovely spot!" etc."... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1825 - 456 pages
...WRITTEN IN WILFORD CHURCHYARD, ON BECOVEKY ÏROM SICKNESS. HEHS would I wish to sleep — This is die spot Which I have long mark'd out to lay my bones...world, Beneath this Yew I would be sepulchred. It is a lovely spot ! The snltry sun, From his meridian height, endeavours vainry To pierce the shadowy foliage,... | |
 | Welsh literature periodicals - 1885 - 630 pages
...Hère wouliî I wish to sleep— this in the scot [in; Which I have long marked f>ut to lay my bones Tired out and wearied with the riotous world, Beneath this yew I would bo sunulcareil. It is a lovely spot ! The aultrv Him, From Li.* meridian height, emuavntrs vainly To... | |
 | Simon White, John Goodridge, Bridget Keegan - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 324 pages
...Sickness," also published in his Remains, Gray's Elegy affords the melancholy poet some consolation: Here would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot Which I have long mark'd out to lay my bones in; Tis a nook Most pleasant. — Such a one perchance did Gray Frequent, as with the vagrant muse he wanton'd18... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1899 - 442 pages
...church-yard of his favorite village. LINES WRITTEN IN WILFORD CHURCH-YARD, On recovery from licknen. HERE would I wish to sleep. — This is the spot Which...world, Beneath this yew I would be sepulchred. It is a lovely spot ! the sultry sun, From his meridian height, endeavours vainly To pierce the shadowy foliage,... | |
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