 Strong the earthy odour grows — I smell the mould above the rose ! Welcome Life ! the Spirit strives ! Strength returns and hope revives ; Cloudy fears and shapes forlorn Fly like shadows at the morn, — O'er the earth there comes a bloom ; Sunny light...  The St. James's Magazine - Page 4711867Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 738 pages
...for sight, And weariness for power. F 567 7>s **• THOMAS HOOD. .ff.-mkirll Hffc : HUelcotne life! FAREWELL life ! My senses swim, And the world is growing...advent of the night — Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapor chill ; Strong the earthy odor grows, — I smell the mould above the rose .... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 pages
...fulfilled, thy daily taskwork accomplished, and thy last song was one of cheerfulness and hope : — " Farewell Life ! my senses swim, And the world is growing...shadows cloud the light, Like the advent of the night — * His own saying. Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapour chill ; Strong the earthy... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 pages
...power. 567 7*S M. THOMAS HOOD. JT.irrVoiil affc : rafclcome 3Lffe! T7AKEWELL life ! My senses swim, -T And the world is growing dim : Thronging shadows cloud...advent of the night — Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapor chill ; Strong the earthy odor grows, — I smell the mould above the rose .... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...forth so tender a familiarity of affection as that of rare Tom Hood." His last lines were these : — Farewell, Life ! my senses swim, And the world is...advent of the night — Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapour chill ; Strong the earthy odour grows — I smell the mould above the rose !... | |
 | 1866 - 836 pages
...sight, And weariness for power. 567 7 ' s M. THOMAS HOOD. F JTaretocIl 3Ufe! E^elcome 3Ufe! vVREWELL life ! My senses swim, And the world is growing dim...advent of the night — Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapor chill; Strong the earthy odor grows,— I smell the mould above the rose. 2 Welcome... | |
 | 1866 - 642 pages
...the fifteenth century as yet had never heard. (To be continued.) BETTY SLATER'S SKELETON. BY MEP ' Farewell life ! my senses swim, And the world is growing...shadows cloud the light, Like the advent of the night.' Hood. PART I. BETTY SLATER was an old woman, who lived in a solitary cottage, about two miles distant... | |
 | George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 pages
...Your eyes are too dim to see it, Yet strive, and wait, and pray. Miss Procter. XXXII. CONVALESCENCE. Farewell Life ! my senses swim, And the world is growing dim : Thronging shadows crowd the light, Like the advent of the night — Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapour... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...may's! live the hour forlorn When thou wilt ask to die with her. Pray for her at eve and morn ! STANZAS. FAREWELL Life ! my senses swim, And the world is growing...advent of the night — Colder, colder, colder still, Upward steals a vapour chill ; Strong the earthy odour grows — I smeU the mould above the rose !... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 pages
...although tolerably well known, must not be omitted here, as the touching " swan song" of Thomas Hood : " Farewell life ! my senses swim, And the world is growing dim ; Thronging shadows i:loud tliu light Like the advent of the night — Colder, colder, colder still Upward steuls n vapor... | |
 | Thomas Hood, Frances Freeling Broderip - 1869 - 506 pages
...children believe, a prophetic foretaste of the hereafter. STANZAS. FAREWELL Life ! my senses swim Anil the world is growing dim ; Thronging shadows cloud...of the night, — Colder, colder, colder still,— Upward steals a vapour chill— Strong the earthy odour grows— I smell the Mould above the Hose !... | |
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