 I whoop the smother'd call, And my feet slip up on the seedy floor, And I care not for the fall. I am willing to die when my time shall come, And I shall be glad to go ; For the world at best is a weary place, And my pulse is getting low ; But the grave...  The poetical works of N.P. Willis - Page 67by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1850 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American poetry - 1829 - 106 pages
...For the world, at best, is a weary place, And my pulse is getting low ; But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And...heart from its dreariness, To see the young so gay. TO A SLEEPING BOY. SLEEP on ! Sleep on ! beguiling The hours with happy rest. Sleep ! — by that dreamy... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...For the world, at best, is a weary place, And my pulse is beating slow ; But the grave is dark, and the heart, will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And it wiles my heart from its dreariness, AUTUMNAL LEAVES. AUTUMNAL leaves, Autumnal leaves, That gently rustle 'neath my tread, Oh how the afflicted... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...For the world, at best, is a weary place, And my pulse is getting low : But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And...heart from its dreariness, To see the young so gay. BETTER MOMENTS. MY mother's voice ! how often creeps Its cadence on my lonely hours ! Like healing... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 406 pages
...is a weary plaee, , J And my pulse is getting low : But the grave is dark, and the heart will foil In treading its gloomy way ; And it wiles my heart from its dreariness, To see the young so gay. j . BETTEH MOMENTS. i •• MY mother's voiee t how often ereeps Its eadenee on my lonely hours I... | |
 | 1835 - 838 pages
...For the world, at best, is a weary place. And my pulse is getting low : But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And...from its dreariness. To see the young so gay. The second, a portion — the closing stanzas — of Mrs Sigourney's TOWER OF MATERKAL TIITY. Fierce passions... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 572 pages
...For the world, at best, is a weary place, And my pulse is getting low : But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And...heart from its dreariness, To see the young so gay.' It is to us truly inconceivable how the author of these natural and touching lines, which bring together... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...go, For the world at best is a weary place, And my pulse is beating slow ; But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way; And...heart from its dreariness To see the young so gay. XLVD. THE BEE. THOU cheerful Bee! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower, Delight me... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1835 - 274 pages
...come, And I shall be glad to go ; For the world is at best a weary place, But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And...heart from its dreariness, To see the young so gay. A CHILD'S FIRST IMPRESSION OF A STAR. SHE had been told that God made all the stars That twinkled up... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 772 pages
...recommends the old to join in all the sports of the young, because — • "The grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way, And it wiles the heart from its dreariness To see the young so gay" — give a very elevating, or edifying, or moral,... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...go; For the world at best is a weary place, And my pulse is getting low ; But the grave is dark, and the heart will fail In treading its gloomy way ; And...heart from its dreariness, To see the young so gay.' Notwithstanding all this praise, however, there a some ground for censure. Our first quarrel is with... | |
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