 | Janus - 1826 - 568 pages
...of this joy, or this pain, over their will. TO DEATH. FROM THE GERMAN OF GLUCK. I. METHINKS it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the west ; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On earth... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1827 - 274 pages
...young no more, For time, with many a winter's chill, My cheeks had furrow'd o'er. 2. Methinks it were no pain to die, On such an eve, when such a sky O'er...canopies the west; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, Then, like an infant, fall asleep, On earth, my mother's brea-t. 3. I cannot doff a human fear; I know... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...He—your Master dear, Though unseen, is ever near. From the German of Gotthe. TO DEATH. METHINKS it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the West ^ To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On earth,... | |
 | 1827 - 462 pages
...paradise flowers for thee. New Monthly Magazine. To DEATH ; from the German of Gluck. . . Methinks it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the west ; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On earth,... | |
 | 1828 - 398 pages
...unworthy of such love. ANON. TO DEATH. it were no pain to die On suchan eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the West ; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On earth, my mother's breast. There's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquillity... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1829 - 476 pages
...its darkness from the day, Waves o'er a warrior's tomb. FROM THE GERMAN OF OLUCK, METHINKS it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the west ; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On earth,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1829 - 424 pages
...darkness from the day, Waves o'er a warrior's tomb. FROM THE GERM/VN OF OLUCK. M i. THINKS it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the west ; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On earth,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1835 - 586 pages
...across a sky of the tenderest violet, I have repeated these beautiful lines of Glück : Methinks it were no pain to die, On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the West ; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, A nd like an infant, sink to sleep On earth,... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
...At an hour like this, we cannot help exclaiming, with the tranquillizing Gluck— " Methinks it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanopies the west; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, sink to sleep On earth,... | |
 | 1837 - 552 pages
...an hour like this, we cannot help exclaiming, with the tranquillizing Gliick— " Methinks it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'ercanomes the west; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, sink to sleep On earth,... | |
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Methinks it were no pain to die On such an eve, when such a sky O'er-canopies the west; To gaze my fill on yon calm deep, And, like an infant, fall asleep On Earth, my mother's breast. 
