 This frail and feverish being of an hour, Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that...  Pamphlets: Education. English. 1810-1906] - Page 261835Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1803 - 162 pages
...parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; * Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain!...doom! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb! Truth, ever lovely, since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man,— How can thy... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 144 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while j Then melt, ye elements ! that fofm'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom I And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely....iince the world began,, The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom-j / And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb I Truth, ever lovely, since the world began,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of niy doom, 345 And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely — since the world... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain!...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely—since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man,— How can... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1812 - 160 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little -while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain !...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely — since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled...doom ! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How can... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - 1824 - 422 pages
...smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain '1 his troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb !' Let us hear one who knew the value, and felt, throngh a long life, the consolations, of Christianity... | |
 | Nathan Sidney Smith Beman - 1825 - 48 pages
...ours. Annihilation is not the destiny of man; the slumbers of the sepulchre, are not eternal. Wero this the case, we might sing our own dirge in the...troubled pulse, and visionary brain ; " Fade, ye wild (lowers, memorials of my doom, " And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb." A life of active usefulness... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 240 pages
...to the deep, To know delight but by her parting smile, Ami toil, and wish, and weep a little while. Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb. C AMPBII.!. Thoughts of a loving nature. — An attempt to apologize for HaroMe's illicit attachments.—... | |
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