 This frail and feverish being of an hour, Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that...  Pamphlets: Education. English. 1810-1906] - Page 261835Full view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 610 pages
...on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled...doom. And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb :' Such, in all his works, and to the last, were our author's hopes and aspiration*. In * The Last... | |
 | 1844 - 524 pages
...deep—- To know delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and weep, and wish, a little while, Then end ye elements that formed in vain This troubled pulse...doom — And sink ye stars that light me to the tomb. " But thanks be to God, this religion can never be wrested from us. You may heap suffering upon the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain!...doom ! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How can... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...on the deep, To know delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and ^eep a little while ; Then melt, ye elements ! that formed in vain This...Fade, ye wild flowers ! memorials of my doom ; And sing, ye stars ! that light me to the tomb. Truth ! ever lovely — since the world began, The foe... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 626 pages
...smile, And toil, and wish, and weep u little while ; Then m(-lt, ye elements, that formed in vain Tim troubled pulse and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom, And »ink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb !' Such, in all his works, and to the last, were our author's... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain . This troubled pulse, and visionary brain!...doom ! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How can... | |
 | 1846 - 634 pages
...on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while ; Then melt ye elements that formed in vain This troubled pulse and visionär}- brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom, And sink ye stars that light me to... | |
 | William Henry Leatham - 1847 - 84 pages
...the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while — Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain, This...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! " But turning from this melancholy picture of wasted talents, and perverted acquirements, let us... | |
 | Henry D. Moore - 1850 - 276 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while; — Then melt ye elements that form'd in vain This troubled pulse and visionary brain !...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb." The grave is a world of gloom, dark and cheerless, with no ray of light to illumine its night of horrors... | |
 | Moses Ballou - 1850 - 262 pages
...the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled...Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom ! And suik, ye stars, that light me to the tomb '." Surely, in the belief of this dark creed, man is wrapped... | |
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