 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1835 - 328 pages
...kiss ; . Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the...shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more. Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, • Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently... | |
 | 1835 - 440 pages
...tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee far away. And, turning from my nursery-window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu! But...but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting sound shall pass my lips no more! Thy maidens grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such 1 — It was. Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? I heard the bells toll'd on thy burial day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee...window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu 1 Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learn'd at... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 420 pages
...souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile !-^it answers — Yes. 3 I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...tear, if souls can weep in bliss. Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return : What ardently... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...toll?d on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu?...shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, griev'd themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return. What ardently... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 710 pages
...if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone Adieus and /arewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass... | |
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I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was. 
