Which preposition to use with dirges

of Occurrences 31%

He came to cull fresh laurels, But fate was in their breath, And turn'd his march of triumph Into a dirge of death.

for Occurrences 19%

The cool sound of it would be a fitting dirge for a foolish fellow who had wandered far from his home.

in Occurrences 13%

For they were chanting his dirge in anapaests, with much mopping and mouthing: "Pour forth your laments, your sorrow declare, Let the sounds of grief rise high in the air: For he that is dead had a wit most keen, Was bravest of all that on earth have been.

on Occurrences 7%

As the third canto has a fitting close with the poet's pathetic remembrance of his daughter, so the fourth is wound up with consummate art,the memorable dirge on the Princess Charlotte being followed by the address to the sea, which, enduring unwrinkled through all its ebbs and flows, seems to mock at the mutability of human life.

to Occurrences 6%

You have roamed through mighty cities, By the Orient's gleaming sea, Down the glittering streets of Venice, And soft-skied Araby: Life to you has been an anthem, But a solemn dirge to me.

over Occurrences 5%

It began to wail in mournful dirges over the swamp, and then it burst in fierce shrieking volleys, with intervals of quiet between.

through Occurrences 2%

'There went a dirge through the forest's gloom.

with Occurrences 1%

Ganfride, who couldst so well in rhyme complain The death of Richard with an arrow slain, Why had not I thy muse, or thou my heart, To sing this heavy dirge with equal art?

around Occurrences 1%

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.

beside Occurrences 1%

Whether their loves are absent or glowing in their eyes, They think no more of jealous feud nor smile nor favor prize; For love himself seems dead to-day amid that gallant train And the dirge beside the bier is heard and each one joins the strain, And silently they stand in line arrayed in mourning black For the dismal pall of Portugal is hung on every back.

by Occurrences 1%

LYCIDAS, the name of an exquisite dirge by Milton over the death by drowning of his friend Edward King.

from Occurrences 1%

The Veronese also bared his head and made the sign of reverence, for they were passing the island of San Michele, toward which a mournful procession of boats, each with its torch and its banner of black, was slowly gliding, while back over the water echoed the dirge from those sobbing cellos.

along Occurrences 1%

Occasionally it moaned, as if sounding a dirge along the mass of stones which storms had hurled or waves had wrenched from the crags above,a dirge for beheaded Russians, for him who had walked the plank, or for the lover of Natalie Ivanhoff.

Which preposition to use with  dirges