 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 bowed to taste the wave, And died.  Poems - الصفحة 47بواسطة William Mason - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 235عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...That ancient city, sits ! William Lisle Bowles. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. 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 bowed to taste... | |
 | Reginald Walter Corlass - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...following touching and sympathetic epitaph will best show Mason's feelings on this occasion: — " 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 1000
...Epitaph on Mrs. Mason " were supplied by Gray. EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF 13KISTOL. wned — they dropped their arms, And clustered Heaven so lately gave! To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bowed to... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...dawned from Bullen's eyes. WILLIAM MASON. [1725-1797 EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, In the Cathedral of Bristol. Take, holy Earth ! all that my soul holds dear ! Take that best gift, which Heaven so lately gave. . . . Does youth, does beauty, read the line ? Does sympathetic fear their breasts... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...Cathedral. We quote the best of his minor poems. 304 EPITAPH ON MRS MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. 1 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 bowed to... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...has outlived all the rest of his works, and is still frequently quoted with praise. It runs thus: " 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...outlived all the rest of his works, and is still frequently quoted with praise. It runs thus : — 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 1002
...Epitaph on Mrs. Mason " were supplied by Gray. EPITAPH ON MES. MASON, IN THE CATHEDRAL OF BRISTOL. q0 n@ / Heaven so lately gave! To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form ; she bowed to... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...the fairest 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 that best gift which Heaven so lately gave ! To Bristol's fount I bore with trembling care Her faded form : she bowed to... | |
 | 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...weak to bear them long. JOHN NORRIS. ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE. [Interred in the cathedral of Bristol.] 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 bowed to... | |
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