 And, oh! when I am stricken, and my heart Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token!  Melanie and Other Poems - Seite 198von Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1837 - 242 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, ^ Absalom! And now farewell ! Tis hard to give thee up, With...gentle slumber on thee ;— And thy dark sin ! — Oh ! 1 could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...drink its last deep token] It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! 10 " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom !" 11. He covered up his face and bowed himself A moment... | |
 | 1838 - 348 Seiten
...token I It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Ahsalom l " And now, farewell I 'Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumher on thee.— May God have called the*, like a wanderer, home, My erring Ahsalom ! He cover'd... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839 - 898 Seiten
...his heart, with manly and dignified resig^ nation he endured it. • T V .• • CHAPTER XI. " -- Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee : • • • • He covered up his face, and bowed himself A moment on the child ; then giving her... | |
 | 1839 - 430 Seiten
...sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! " And now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give then up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee:— And thy dark sin!—Oh! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called... | |
 | Henry Bacon - 1840 - 228 Seiten
...But thou no more, with thy sweet voice, shall come To meet me, Absalom ! And now, farewell ! JT is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle...sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this wee its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom... | |
 | Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1840 - 206 Seiten
...manly and dignified resignation he endured it. i -• • » THE COUSIN. 91 CHAPTER XI. " • — — 'Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on Ihee : * + * * * He covered up his face, and bowed himsulf A moment on the child.; then giving her... | |
 | Sullivan Hardy Weston - 1841 - 52 Seiten
...pity, enhancing sorrow, derision, mirth, joy, exultation, scorn, and distress. EXAMPLE 1.—Sorrow. And now, farewell! "Tis hard to give thee up, With...the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee ! Hay God have called thee like a wanderer home, My erring Absalom. 4. The tremor may be heard on the... | |
 | 1830 - 494 Seiten
...It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell ! 't is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle...its bitterness had won thee ! May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom !" He covered up his face, and bowed himself A moment... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 418 Seiten
...sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give then up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee :—...wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom !" He covered up his face, and bowed himself A moment... | |
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