 | Walter Ripman - English language - 1920 - 408 pages
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid , And sorrow,...: Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
 | 1921 - 626 pages
...skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Besides the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt...soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise." [881] The minister's office in the sick room is the... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Children's poetry - 1922 - 288 pages
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last fait' ring accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 890 pages
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid. And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, 172 . O, weep for Adonais ! — The quick Dreams, The...-winged Ministers of thought, Who were his flocks, whom faltering accents whispered praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace. His looks adorned the... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood; at his control Despair...soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was layed, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The...control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; 470 Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faultering accents whispered praise.... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. 170 pires, Pale spectres, gaping tombs, and purple fires;...seen, Of bodies changed to various forms by Spleen. H 176 And his last faltering accents whispered At church, with meek and unaffected grace. His looks adorned... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry, English - 1928 - 888 pages
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow,...; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. At church with meek and unaffected grace, His looks... | |
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The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise. 
