 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou...nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1830 - 360 pages
...sorrowing son ? Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss....smile, it answers yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy funeral day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; Arid turning, from my nursery window, drew... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile 1 it answers— Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy...hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But wag it such ? — It was. — Where... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1830 - 364 pages
...can weep in hliss. Ah! that maternal smile, it answers yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy funeral day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ;...nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu. Quantity is alvays united with the semitone, when it is employed in solemn and serious subjects... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...thy spirit o'er thy sorr'wing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls...bliss — Ah that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. 1 heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...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...nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu! But was it such ?—It was.—Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 360 pages
...sorrowing son ? Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss....smile, it answers, yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy funeral day ; I ,saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And turning, from my nursery window, drew... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 356 pages
...sorrowing son ? Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss....smile, it answers, yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy funeral day; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away; And turning, from my nursery window, drew A... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; ^ Perhaps a tear, if souls...— > Ah that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes ! y I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning... | |
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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, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. 
