The rude wind is singing The dirge of the music dead; The cold worms are clinging Where kisses were lately fed.
Down the liquid stream of lingual melody the dirge drifts dying—dying it echoes back into a ghostly after-life, as the yet throbbing sense wakes the drowsed mind once more.
The man must be indeed dull of soul who cannot join in a dirge for the beauty of the vanishing past.
Cleaveland November Mahlon Leonard Fisher Storm Fear Robert Frost Winter: a Dirge Robert Burns Old Winter Thomas Noel The Frost Hannah Flagg Gould The Frosted Pane Charles G.
Here bring the last gifts, loud and shrill Wail death-dirge of the brave What pleased him most in life may still Give pleasure in the grave.
Some pages back will be found a reference, and the words of a peculiar death dirge sung by the Senèl of California, as related by Mr. Powers.
The aged men of the tribe, arranged in a circle, chant a peculiar funeral dirge around one of their number, keeping time upon a drum or some rude cooking-utensil.
Jeremiah's dirge on Josiah, or that the book he calls The Qinoth was identical with our Qinoth.
And I, O King, made a dirge to cry beyond that valley and the poppies bowed their heads; but there is no cry nor no lament that may adjure the life to return again to a flower that grew in a garden once and hereafter is not.
But into the dirgeof Shimono Kani came voices crying out of the heart strings of the gods, all sighing still for the things that might not be.
Low in his Temple, with a song of exceeding grief, Zornadhu in the morning made a dirge for the passing of poppies, because in the night time there had fallen petals that might not return or ever come again into the garden valley.
And the dirge and the voices crying, go drifting away from the Path of Stars, away from the Midst of Things, till they come twittering among the Worlds, like a great host of birds that are lost by night.
Only Shimono Kani, the youngest of the gods, made him a harp out of the heart strings of all the elder gods, and, sitting upon the Path of Stars in the Middle of Things, played upon the harp a dirge for the gods of Old.
The dirge of Shimono Kani shall roll on till one day it shall come with all its notes complete to overwhelm the Silence that sits at the End of Things.
No human footstep treads this solitary wild, for 'tis commonly believed that the ghosts of my ancestors drag clanking chains through these ruins, and chant their funeral dirgeat the hour of midnight.
Among the psalms and anthems, a dirge accompanied by trumpets was sung, "And the King said to all the people that were with him, rend your clothes and gird you with sackcloth and mourn.
The sentence referring to the Lyke-Wake Dirge was printed by Scott, to whom it was communicated by Ritson’s executor after his death.
THE LYKE-WAKE DIRGE +The Text+ is given verbatim et literatim from John Aubrey’s MS.
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Ritson found an illustration of this dirge in a manuscript letter, written by one signing himself ‘H.
But it is concerned with myths so widespread and ancient, that as much could be written about the dirge as almost any one of the ballads proper.
Dusky, stately forms ride by, and the wail of the dirge sounds on the evening breeze.
The slow, sad voice of the dirge announced the approach of the procession, the whole effect of which was intensely solemn and impressive.
A SEA DIRGE Full fathom five thy father lies: Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
In token of mourning the widow's body is smeared with clay, and from time to time she is heard to chant a dirge in a whining, melancholy tone.
But ere the minstrels left the bowers, And to summer climes had fled, They sang the dirge o'er fading flowers, That by their stems lay dead.
The flowers you reared repose in sleep With folded bells where the night-dews weep, And the passing wind, like a spirit, grieves In a gentle dirge through the sighing leaves.
Indeed, that morning all comparisons seemed to take on a tinge of melancholy; the reason being that throughout the previous evening there had been moaning in my soul a mournful dirge on the future life.
Perhaps the creature felt too old to bay a dirge to its master after the manner of its kind.
And the dirge in minor may suddenly be Turned into a jubilant song of glee.
A DIRGE Death and a dirge at midnight; Yet never a soul in the house Heard anything more than the throb and beat Of a beautiful waltz of Strauss.
A DIRGE A bell tolls on in my heart As though in my ears a knell Had ceased for awhile to swell, But the sense of it would not part From the spirit that bears its part In the chime of the soundless bell.
Illustration: LAST OF ALL SHE SANG IN A LOW VOICE A DIRGE OVER THE ROVER OF THE PLAIN] When all was still the girl made a fire and boiled some water in a pot.
Last of all, she sang in a low voice a dirgeover the Rover of the Plain.
One by one her parents, her brothers and her sisters, drank also and died, singing a dirge to the memory of the buffalo.
Hence we may suppose that the cry maa-ne-hra was chanted by the reapers over the cut corn as a dirge for the death of the corn-spirit (Isis or Osiris) and a prayer for its return.
O child of Laius' ill-starred race Would I had ne'er beheld thy face; I raise for thee a dirge as o'er the dead.
With night-fall the heights seemed to draw in and huddle close and the dirge of flood and wind mounted into a heavier timbre.
At his back, beyond the boom, sounded the dirge of the swollen waters running out.
