14 Verbs to Use for the Word requiem

"The seas shall sing his requiem."

Ere the modest violets of early spring shall ope their beauteous eyes the genius of civilization may chant the wailing requiem of the proudest nationality the world has ever seen, as she shatters her withered and tear-moistened lilies o'er the bloody tomb of butchered France.

He sighs over them another requiem, toned in the deep sympathy of a true Christian heart; but he does not lament in their sad method of decay the loss of any element of manhood or of the higher ingredients of humanity.

This enabled the cochero to understand the expression on the saint's face, but whether the sight of the guards troubled him or he had no great respect for a saint who would travel in such company, he did not recite a single requiem.

Their mortal race have run; When mighty monarchs yield their breath, And patriots sleep the sleep of death, Then shall he raise his voice of gloom, And peal a requiem o'er their tomb: Hurra!

This was that murdered young man's requiem and funeral service.

The officers hesitated, as the ominous sea swell came surging on, and the dashing waves moaning upon the winding shore, seemed shrieking a sad requiem over the departed.

I want the night to be long, the moon blind, The hills thick with moving memories, And my heart beating a breathless requiem For all the dead days I have lived.

To take only two significant points: it sounds very sentimental to be told that the girl Ua, after Kaaialii had jumped into the vortex "wailed upon the winds a requiem of love and grief," but a native Hawaiian has no more notion of the word requiem than he has of a syllogism.

It sucked through the stone, it stole through the street, It rose in the hall, silent and fleet; Soundless it swept through the market-place Folding the town in a chill embrace; No ruth it knew, it heard no call, Sinner and saint it gathered them all, Gathered them all, while over them The bells they had cursed tolled requiem.

" Thus wrote Shakespeare of bold chanticleer; and perhaps the rooks when they are grieving for their lost ones, hold solemn requiem until the morning light and the cheering rays of the sun make them forget their woes.

The silvery stream dances on, making sweet music in its winding course, ever murmuring a sweet requiem to the dead.

But Mr. Arnold pitches his requiem to a different strain.

"I'll play a requiem to the rodent," he said, "that will make him turn over in his grave, wherever that interesting spot may be.

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  requiem