 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Boys - 1839 - 194 pages
...strait and narrow path of life. " Thee on thy mother's knee, a new-born child, In tears we saw, when all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Smiles may be thine, when all around thee weep." THE ENB. * 53 K THE BORROWER WILL BE CHARGED AN OVERDUE... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...religious zeal ; a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety." cian who wrote it would certainly have an easy death....gloom within me ; why should you wear it on your faces 1 " And then he called for Bryant's Poems, and desired them to read his favorite piece, " The Old Man's... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...Sopranos, or 2 Tenors, and Bass.) ON parent knees a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, when all around thee smiled ; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, when all around thee weep. Words by Sir William Jones. (Chappell.) ON MENANDER. CATCH, for 3 Voices.—... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...FROM THE PERSIAN. SIR W. JONES. ON parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled : So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee wee]). THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. " GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER." MRS. LH SIGOURNEV.... | |
 | Christian life - 1841 - 188 pages
...the bed of death ; and remember this thought, as expressed by Hafez, the sweet poet of Persia, — " So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep." Then, should you be spared to wear that "crown of glory," — the venerable... | |
 | Henry Ingersoll Bowditch - Christian life - 1841 - 190 pages
...was quiet, he quoted his favorite passage from Hafez, one of the sweetest of the poets of Persia : " So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." On another similar occasion, when one who was near him had a sad countenance,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - Children's literature - 1842 - 418 pages
...thinks, and acts? A Vision, " On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." THE beautiful sentiment in the above stanza, translated from the Persian... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...know, and, if he has, to remember. Thee on thy Mother's knees, a new-born child, In tears we saw when all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Smiles may be thine, when all around thee.weep. For my version I am in a great measure indebted to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Truth.' Tetnutic — From the Fenian. On patent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. FRANCIS FAWKES. FBANCIS FAWKES (1721-1777) translated Anacreon, Sappho,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Truth.' Tctnuttc — From the Persian. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while uminar@ $ while all around thee weep. FRANCIS FAWKES. FRANCIS FAWKKS (1721-1777) translated Anacreon, Sapplio.... | |
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On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. 
