| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...ar« I shed ? Hover d thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thce slow away, And, turning from my nur^'ry windtSw, drew A long, long nigh, and wept a tut adieu.... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...— Ah', that maternal smile'! it answers' . . . Yes'. "Herd. '-Me. «Wer. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day'; I saw the hearse that bore thee...wept a last adieu'! But was it such'? It was'. Where thou art gone', Adieus and farewells are* a sound unknown'. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore',... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such 1 — It was. Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? I heard the bells toll'd on thy burial day ; I saw the hearse that bore...window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu 1 Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learn'd at... | |
| Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee far away. And, turning from my nursery-window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu! But was it such ? It was— Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...wept a last adieu! But was it such ? It was.— Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that •peaceful shore,... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 420 pages
..."I Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile !-^it answers — Yes. 3 I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...last adieu ! But was it such? — It was. — Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,... | |
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