 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...calamity ; while we know that events prolonged the impression of this regret to more considerate years. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? I heard the bells toll'd on thy burial day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...made on his youthful imagination bv the remembrance of her virtues. We extract the following passage. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed 1 more of the Donne than of the Cowper, and though I love all of both names, and have a thousand reasons... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 440 pages
...afterwards, on the receipt of her portrait from a relation in Norfolk :— " 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 men, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. 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 1 Perhaps... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 420 pages
...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...even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; "I Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...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...even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...those dear eyes, (Blest be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say,...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun 1 Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt. a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...poignantly, and he has recorded his feelings on this occasion in the most beautiful of his minor poems. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say,...son, — Wretch even then, life's journey just begun 1 Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. 1 heard... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...beautiful and much admired lines on his mother's picture, there is the following pathetic remark : My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed 1 Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? In dwelling... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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 learnt that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er... | |
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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 learn'd that thou wast dead, Say,... 
