 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...II. Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark! my pulse like a soft drum Beats my approach, tells thee I come ; And...slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee. The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With hope and comfort, Dear (forgive... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...r Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark! my pulse like a soft drum Beats my approach, tells thee I come ; And slow howe'er my marches l>e, I shall at last sit down by thee. The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark ! my pulse, like a soft drum, Beats my approach, tells thee I come ;...slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee. The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With hope and comfort : Dear, (forgive... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 pages
...Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark ! my pulse, like a soft drum, Beats my approach, tells thee I come ;...slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee. The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With hope and comfort : Dear, (forgive... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1839 - 414 pages
...close the ground, and 'bout her shade Black curtains draw, my bride is laid. But hark ! my pulse like a soft drum Beats my approach, tells thee I come; And slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at la»t sit down by thee. Bishop King's Poems, p. 57. ut tupra. Called Seditious Conventicles,— p.... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 506 pages
...proceed to quote the supposed original : " But hark ! my pulse, like a soft drum, Beats my approach to thee, I come ; And slow, howe'er my marches be, I shall at last lie down with thee." The same idea may be found, also, in Shakspeare's " Rape of Lucrece," although,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark ! my pulse, like a soft drum, Beats my approach, tells thee I come ;...slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee. The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With hope and comfort : Dear (forgive... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 616 pages
...following his wife to the grave : But hark ! my palte, like a toft drvm, Beats my approach — tells tnee I come ! And slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee. Were I disposed, indeed, to push this subject any farther, I should have little difficulty... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 560 pages
...die Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark! my pulse like a soft drum Beats my approach, tells thee I come ; And...slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee. The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With hope and comfort. Dear, (forgive... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark ! my pulse, like a soft drum, Beats my approach, tells thee I come ;...slow howe'er my marches be, I shall at last sit down by thee. The thought of this bids me go on, And wait my dissolution With hope and comfort. Dear, forgive... | |
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Tis true, with shame and grief I yield, Thou like the van first took'st the field, And gotten hast the victory In thus adventuring to die Before me, whose more years might crave A just precedence in the grave. But hark ! my pulse, like a soft drum, Beats... 
