They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear; It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which... The Western Messenger - Page 581841Full view - About this book
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Theology - 1873 - 438 pages
...of light, And I alone sit lingering here ' Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast,...upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample... | |
| Matilda Leathes - 1873 - 288 pages
...of light, And I alone sit lingering here ! Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. ' It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast Like stars upon some gloomy grave, Or those faint beams in which the hill is dressed After the sun's remove. ' I see them walking... | |
| American poetry - 1874 - 686 pages
...light ! •*- And I alone sit lingering here. Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast...upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest, After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth... | |
| James Martineau - 1874 - 786 pages
...I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. 2 It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars...upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is dressed After the sun's remove. 3 Dear, beauteous Death ! the jewel of the just, Shining... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...light, Aud I alone sit lingering here ! Their very memory is fair and bright, And ray sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast,...upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove. I sec them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...of light, And 1 alone sit lingering here ! Their very memory ia fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those taint beams in which this hill is dre.st After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...of light, And I alone sit lingering here ! Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast,...upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...of light ! And I alone sit lingering here. Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast...upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is dressed After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...of light, And I alone sit lingering here ! Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear ; It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast,...some gloomy grove, — Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious poetry - 1877 - 276 pages
...of light, And I alone sit lingering here : Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear. It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast...which the hill is dressed After the sun's remove. Dear, beauteous Death ! the jewel of the just, Shining nowhere but in the dark, What mysteries do lie... | |
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