| William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...gavest me, though unseen, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. 1 heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu. He was old enough, too, if not to understand the greatness of his loss, to be made sensible of its... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss....maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window,... | |
| Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun 1 Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt. a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss...maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll?d on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry... | |
| Walter Colton - 1836 - 380 pages
...oegunl Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ! I heard the bell 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 '." .... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 420 pages
...son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; "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 hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss...maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the heaise that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window,... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 436 pages
...son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; "1 Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — /•...smile ! — it answers — Yes. ) I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window,... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss : Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. 2. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day • I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning... | |
| James Wilson - 1838 - 372 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss, — Ah ! that maternal smile, it answers YES." Here my misfortunes did not end ; I was seized by the small pox, and for want of a mother's care, and... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...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 thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry winddw, drew A long, long sigii, and wept a last adieu. RULE VI. The rising slide is commonly... | |
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