 | English poetry - 1844 - 108 pages
...a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind '? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Even from... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness ! On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye require* ; Even from... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned...day, — Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ; Some pious drops the closing eve requires ; Even from... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For4 who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops5 the closing eye requires ; Even from... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body moke. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey. This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind Т On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires : Kv'u from... | |
 | Sunset - 1845 - 120 pages
...separation from every mortal delight and endearment which it involves : " For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned;...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind ?" It is attended by anxious forehodings and guilty apprehensions, which nature knows not how to repress... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...his name stood for something that was worthy of the character of man. For who, to dull forgetfulness a prey', This pleasing', anxious' being e'er resigned',...day', Nor cast one longing' lingering', look behind' ? This desire, so universal, so natural to man', revelation hath no where forbidden. Let it only be... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...the rustic m'oralist/ to dTe. For wh'o (to dumb Forget'fulness a pr'ey) This plea'sing/ anxious-being e'er resign'ed, Left the warm pre'cincts/ of the cheerful day, Nor cast one lo'nging, lingering lo'ok behm'd ? On some/ fon'd-breast/ the par'ting-soul/ relie's, Some pio'us-drops/ the clo'sing-eye req'uires... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned , — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, — Nor cast one longing, lingerng look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ;... | |
 | Thomas Henry White - 1845 - 492 pages
...his shattered members. Well has the Bard of the Village churchyard said 0 ! who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ! But these doomed wretches had not a moment allowed... | |
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For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? 
