 | Life - 1844 - 292 pages
...tear, if souls can weep in bliss. I heard the hell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that hore thee slow away; And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu." WHY should I now, grown old and feeble, raise the curtain of the past, or rehearse the mysteries of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ab, Chambers bearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew Л long, long sigh, and... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss; Perhaps s tear, if souls can weep in bliss: Ah, that maternal...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... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretcli even then, life's journey just begun? 25 Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, } Ӳ answersYes. 1 heard the bell toll 'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,... | |
 | Elizabeth McCracken - 1917 - 228 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...burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, 45 And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu. But was it such?... | |
 | Elizabeth McCracken - 1917 - 234 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...burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, 45 And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu. But was it such?... | |
 | 1870 - 750 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then,' life's journey juet begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah that maternal smile ! it answer?, Yes. *This is in allusion to the lowness of spirits, owing; to disease, to "which, the poet... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1921 - 440 pages
...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 hearse that bore thee...window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! To his friend Hill, after the lapse of 47 years, he wrote : " I can truly say that not a week passes... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, 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... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1921 - 444 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest 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,... | |
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Perhaps a tear, 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 slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept... 
