 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
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 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...sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have call'd thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 Seiten
...to 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...so like a gentle slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin ! — O ! I could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness bad won thee. May God have call'd thee,... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 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...sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have call'd thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 Seiten
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, 5. And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee np, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee : — And thy dark sin ! — O, I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee,... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 Seiten
...It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! 6. And now, farewell ! 'T is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle...dark sin ! Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee ! May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1866 - 390 Seiten
...drink its lust 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...this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have call'd thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom !" He cover'd up his face, and bowed himself... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 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...dark sin !— oh, I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom... | |
 | 1866 - 408 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...sin ! — oh, I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 412 Seiten
...banner out ; (JT.) Shout "FREEDOM" till your lisping ones Give back the cradle shout. WHITHER. (pi.) "And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, . My lost boy, Absalom... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 396 Seiten
...drink its last deep token I It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! 6. " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee I — And thy dark sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee.... | |
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