 | Pastoral recollections - 1837 - 296 pages
...rest; How mildly beams theclosiog eye! How gently heaves th' expii ins breast ! So fades a summer doud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant, smiles the victor's brow, Fann'd by some guardian angel's wing ; O grave! where is thy... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1837 - 90 pages
...CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY. 70, 71 70. LM MRS. BARBAULD. The Righteous blessed in Death. 1 How bless 'd the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul...How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...a righteous soul to rest. How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wing; Where is, O Grave ! thy victory... | |
 | William Cutter Hanscom - Sermons, American - 1838 - 218 pages
...from its frail tenement, " Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." " So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale,...shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which nothing can destroy ; Nought can disturb that peace profound,... | |
 | Samuel Adams Devens - East (U.S.) - 1838 - 230 pages
...serene. He was a good man and regarded himself in the hands of God in any part of his universe. How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul...How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently... | |
 | Samuel Adams Devens - History - 1838 - 228 pages
...the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks tb« gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. The following extract from a letter dated ' Santa Cruz, February 18th, 1838,'has been put into my hands,... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1839 - 480 pages
...he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast! 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So...shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. SA holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys; Nothing disturbs that peace profound,... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 304 pages
...a righteous soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes! How gently heaves the expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wing: Where is, O Grave! thy victory... | |
 | Emily Taylor - American poetry - 1839 - 306 pages
...a righteous soul to rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the expiring breast! So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when...shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wing : Where is, 0 Grave! thy victory... | |
 | Isaac Watts, Samuel Worcester, Samuel Melancthon Worcester - Bible - 1839 - 780 pages
...the righteous when they die, .n When holy souls retire to rest! How mildly beams the closing eye ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast! 2 So fades...away : So sinks the gale when storms are o'er: So fremly shuts the eye of day: So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears,... | |
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So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 
