 When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters are few, And that number more than true, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!  Lives of Sacred Poets - Page 176by Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort...priest his last hath pray'd, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decay'd, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When (God knows) I'm toss'd about Either... | |
 | Walter Burgh - Hymns, English - 1826 - 382 pages
...burn blue, And my comforters are few ; Yet that number more than true : Sweet Spirit, comfort me. 9. When the priest his last hath pray'd, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decay'd ;— Sweet Spirit, comfort me. 10. When the judgment is reveal'd, And... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...to kill — Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the passing bell dolh toll, An1' the Furies, in a shoal, Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort...Spirit, comfort me! When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what he said Because my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...sleep, Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the tapers now burn blue, t, And the comforters are few, And that number more than...Spirit, comfort me! When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...weep, And the world is drowned in sleep, Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! r When the tapers now burn blue,. And the comforters...Spirit, comfort me ! • . When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! . •... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...comfort me. When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies, in a shoal, Come to fright my parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. When the priest his last hath pray'd, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decay'd, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. When, God knows, I'm toss'd about, Either... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...comfort me. When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies, in a shoal, Come to fright my parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. When the priest his last hath pray'd, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decay 'd, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. When, God knows, I'm toss'd about, Either... | |
 | 1840 - 420 pages
...my bed, Sick at heart and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted ; Sweet Spirit, comfort meWhen the tapers now burn blue, And the comforters are few,...number more than true ; Sweet Spirit, comfort me. When ths priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said, Because my speech is now decayed ; Sweet... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...Come to fright my parting soul — Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! " When the tapers all burn blue, When the comforters are few, And that number more than...Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! « When the priest his last has prayed, And I nod to what is said, 'Cause my speech is now decayed — Sweet Spirit, comfort me... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...Sweet Spirit, comfort me. When the passing bell doth toll, And the Furies in a shoal, Come to fright my parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. When the tapers...that number more than true; Sweet Spirit, comfort me. * Some interesting particulars of his life, interspersed with a few most unpoetical letters, may be... | |
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