 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
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1870 - 204 Seiten
...drink its last deep token 1 ' 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. He covered up his face, and bowed himself A moment on his child :... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 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...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... | |
 | H. R. Schermerhorn - 1871 - 124 Seiten
...warning, and nearly all of those emotions which require a peculiarly emphatic expression. ILLUSTRATIONS. "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 lost boy, Absalom... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1871 - 748 Seiten
...drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom 1 " 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... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 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 death so like a slumber on thee ; — And thy dark sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1872 - 322 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... | |
 | 1872 - 514 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 Hartley - 1872 - 372 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 lost boy, Absalom... | |
 | 1872 - 710 Seiten
...drink its last deep token. [gloom, It were so sweet, amid death's gathering • To see thec, Absalom ! ing in If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. Hay God have call'd thee, like a wanderer, My lost boy,... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 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 death so like a slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness... | |
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