 | Poetic gleanings - 1827 - 182 pagina’s
...How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 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. * A Greenland fishing-befit. HYMN TO THE MOON. 17 Triumphant smiles the victor... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pagina’s
...retire to rest ; How mildly heams the closing eye ! How gently heaves the expiring hreast ! 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. Trinmphant smiles the victor's hrow, Faun'd hy some guardian am;el's wing;... | |
 | Sebastian Streeter, Russell Streeter - 1829 - 426 pagina’s
...; How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves the dying breast ! 8 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. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing ;... | |
 | Alexander Gunn - 1829 - 560 pagina’s
...manner. So indeed he went off, as circumstances indicated; and, "So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks a gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore." • The next Sabbath, his remains were committed to the house appointed for... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pagina’s
...retire to rest ; How mildly heams lhe closing eye ! How gently heaves the expiring hreast! So fades a summer.cloud away: So sinks the gale when Storms are o'er; So gcully shuts the e¡e of il.n ; Su dies a wave along the shore. Triumphant smiles the victor's hrow,... | |
 | Christian worship - 1830 - 482 pagina’s
...How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 2 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. 3 A holy quiet reigns around ; A calm which nothing can destroy; Nought can... | |
 | 1830 - 458 pagina’s
...How mildly beams 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 shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
 | 1831 - 456 pagina’s
...rest, How mildly beam the closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! 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. Life's duty done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies;... | |
 | Lowell Mason - 1831 - 584 pagina’s
...How mildly beams the closing eye ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast! 2 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 snore. "rf 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, >• Fanned by some guardian angel's... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pagina’s
...How mildly beam the closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! So fades a summer's 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. A holy quiet reigns around, — A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
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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. 
