 METHINKS it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the West ^ To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On earth, my mother's breast.  Short Patent Sermons - Page 68by Elbridge Gerry Paige - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Janus - 1826 - 568 pages
...earth my mother's breast. II. There's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquillity. These clouds are living things ; I trace their veins of...them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings. III. These be the angels that convey Us weary children of a day, Life's tedious nothing o'er, Where... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...earth, my mother's breast. There's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquillity : These clouds are living things: I trace their veins of liquid...them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings. These be the angels that convey Us weary children of a day,— Life's tedious nothing o'er,— Where... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1827 - 462 pages
...earth, my mother's breast. There's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquillity — These clouds are living things ; I trace their veins of liquid gold ; I see them solemnly unfold v ' Their soft and fleecy wings. > These be the angels that convey Us weary children of a day, Life's... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...earth, my mother's breast. There's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquillity : These clouds are living things : I trace their veins of...them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings. These be the angela that convey Us weary children of a day, — Life's tedious nothing o'er, — Where... | |
 | 1829 - 488 pages
...translated from a morceau, by Gluck, (a German poet ;) and our hearts respond as each of us sighs : " There's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue...see them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings ! These be the angels that convey Us weary children of a day Life's tedious nothing o'er, Where neither... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...earth, ray mother's breast. There 's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquillity. These clouds, are living things ; I trace their veins of...see them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings : These be the angels that convey Us weary children of a day, Life's tedious nothing o'er, Where neither... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...earth, my mother's breast. There 's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquiDity. These clouds are living things ; I trace their veins of...see them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings : These be the angels that convey Us weary children of a day, Life's tedious nothing o'er, Where neither... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1835 - 578 pages
...sleep Methinka it were no pain to die, On such an eve, when such a sky On earth, my mother's breast. Those clouds are living things : I trace their veins of liquid gold, I see them solemnly unfold There's peace and welcome in yon sea, Of endless, blue tranquility,— Their soft and fleecy wings.... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 536 pages
...to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the west; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, sink to sleep On earth, my mother's...them solemnly unfold Their soft and fleecy wings. " These be the angels, that convey Us, weary pilgrims of a day, Life's tedious nothings o'er, Where... | |
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