 | History - 1818 - 798 pages
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child! " When young and haply pure as thou, " 1 look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...said , in mild Heart -humbled tones — „thou blessed child! When young and haply pure as thou, 1 look'd and pray'd like thee — but now —" He hung...instant came , Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept! Blest tears of soul -felt penitence! Jn whose benign , redeeming ßow Is felt the ßrst, the only sense... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When young and haply pure as thou, He hung his Lead — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - Suicide - 1824 - 422 pages
...was a time," he said, with mild Heart-humbling tones, " thou blessed child, When, young and happy, pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee ! but...his head — each nobler aim. And hope, and feeling, that had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept ! — he wept! Blest... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There teas a time," he said in mild Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When young and haply pure as thou, s' I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 326 pages
...young and haply pure a?th«u,e- * » • » " I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — " He hunc; his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From hoyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him and he wept ! he wept ! Bless tears of soul-felt penitence... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grare ! '- « There was a time,» he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones — « thou blessed child...as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — A He hung his head — each noblrr aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour,... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child...instant came Fresh o'er him and he wept ! he wept} Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...Heart-humbled tones — ' thou blessed child .! When young and happy, pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee — but now' — He hung his head — each...nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept^he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence,... | |
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O'er many a year of guilt and strife, Flew o'er the dark flood of his life, Nor found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ? "There was a time... 
