 And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain,...  Book of Elegant Poetical Extracts - Page 457by John T. Watson - 1869 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...skies ; He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. . Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The rev'rend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The rev'rend champion stood. At his controul, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 pages
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the burden would often fall off. " Beside the bed where parting life was laid, " And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd," he was at once faithful and tender ; and if " Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul," 't was... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. ark the year, and mark the night. When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shr dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pages
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the harden would often fall off. ' Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed ' — he was, at once, faithful and tender ; and if ' Despair and anguish fled the struggling... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 434 pages
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the burden would often fall off. " Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed," . • he was at once faithful and tender ; and if " Despair and anguish fled the struggling... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 pages
...them " lightened." In listening to his conversation and prayers, the burden would often fall off. " Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed" — he was, at once, faithful and tender ; and if " Despair and anguish fled the struggling... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...the skies, He try'd each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed, where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt and pain, by turns dismay 'd, The rev'rend champion stood. At his control. Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1833 - 684 pages
...sitting " Bcsi'le ihe bed where parting life was I ihl, With sorrow, guht, anil fear, by turn» dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair...came down, the trembling wretch to raise, And his lasi filtering accents whiaperM praise." Soch a man partakes of that divine nature, that came among... | |
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