 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...were her own ; And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed t Hover'd thy spirit o'er... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1839 - 674 pages
...is here intended to indicate the rising inflection. My mother! when I learn'd that thou wast d6ad, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing s6n. Wretch even then, life's journey just begun i 3. The falling inflection. This turns the voice... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian revery, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother ! when I learned that them wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? ****** Perhaps thou gavest me, unseen,... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...fallen, and the weapons of war perished ! LESSON LXIV. On receding his Mother's Picture. — COWPER. 1 MY mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even. then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
 | Religion - 1841 - 592 pages
...before his mother's portrait and giving vent, in touching numbers, to his soul's deep emotion ? — "My mother ! When I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch, even then life's journey just begun? IVrhaps thou... | |
 | Sullivan Hardy Weston - 1841 - 52 pages
...gloom For that celestial light ? Farewell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells. EXAMPLE 3.—Sorrow. My Mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? I heard... | |
 | 1876 - 516 pages
...ever read Cowper's deeply pathetic lines on the receipt of his mother's picture without tears — " My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I sh«d ?" But I need not quote lines so familiar. The phrase in Psalm xxxv. 14, is very expressive —... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...were her own : And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, } A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er... | |
 | William Jones - 1842 - 294 pages
...in that blissful haven, ' where tempests never beat, nor billows roar.' ' My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the...shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, When endless joys with thee had just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps... | |
 | John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...relief6 — Shall steep me in Elysian revery, A momentary dream, that thou art she. ' 3. My Mother !a when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
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But gladly, as the precept were her own: And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say,... 
