...— " Here his first lays majestic Denham sung, There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tongua; 0 early lost, what tears the river shed When the sad...pomp along his banks was led! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre! " In the same poem he indulges the absurd...

..." Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tongue. Oh early lost ! What tears the River shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! " Cowley's House is still sometimes called by its old name, the Porch House, from a porch with chamber...

...said to have been conveyed by water. Pope accordingly in his ' Windsor Forest' refers to — " the tears the river shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led." The house, originally of timber, with plaster divisions, has boeu much altered and added to, but still...

...his body having been conveyed in a funeral barge upon the waters of the Thames he loved so well— " What tears the river shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led!" ago removed, Cowley's house retains much of its original character. The room in which he died is still...

...such a funeral for such a man ; and to it, possibly, allusion is made by Pope when he writes,— " What tears the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks was led." Old customs still reign in Chertsey. For instance, the curfew bell is still (1867) rung nightly, tolling...

...that followed the remains of Cowley down the Thames to Westminster Abbey. " 0 early lost ! What tear? the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks was led !" If one should walk a mile or so to the west of Chertsey, up the slope of St. Anne's Hill, he would...

...lays mijeatic Danham sung ; There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tongue. Oh, early lost I * what tears the river shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping waves on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. Since Fate, relentless, etopp'd...

...— " Here his first lays majestic Denham sung, There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tonga*; 0 early lost, what tears the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks was led 1 His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's >yre ! " In the same...

...again : — " Here his first lays majestic Denham sung, There the last numbers flowed from Cowley's tongue ; O early lost, what tears the river shed When the sad pomp along his banks was led I His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre I " lu the same...

...: — " There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue. Oh ! early lost ! what tears the tiver shed When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre. " Cowley's funeral is thus mentioned under...