 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 392 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... | |
 | Gift books - 1841 - 332 pages
...the sight entered his soul, and softened his hard and cruel heart : " ' There was a time,' he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, 'thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee ; but now ' — He hung his head : each nobler aim And hope and feeling,... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace : " There mas a time," he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept! From l.ullii Rookh, THE DEATH OF AZIM. Time fleeted — years on years had pass'd away, And few of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1842 - 468 pages
...him back one branch of grace. " There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " them blessed child ! " When, young and haply pure as thou,...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 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...young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thce — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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...— " He hung his head- — each nobler aim And hope anil feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept! he... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 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;...hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept I he wept Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 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!...haply pure as thou, " I look'd and pray'd like thee — hut now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling, which had slept From... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 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, " I looked and prayed like thee — but now—" He hung his head— each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 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... | |
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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... 
