| John Evans - Baptists - 1819 - 444 pages
...behold a new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smil'd ; So LIVE, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep! Mark the perfect man and behold the upright! for the end of that man — is peace. _*t£ The future... | |
| George Wentworth - English poetry - 1824 - 378 pages
...naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'tl ; So live, that, sinking in my last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. » THE ACORN. The lofty oak from a small acorn grows, And to the heavens ascends with spreading boughs... | |
| Christian life - 1841 - 188 pages
...remember this thought, as expressed by Hafez, the sweet poet of Persia, — " So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep." Then, should you be spared to wear that "crown of glory," — the venerable gray head, you will be... | |
| Henry Ingersoll Bowditch - Christian life - 1841 - 190 pages
...favorite passage from Hafez, one of the sweetest of the poets of Persia : " So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." On another similar occasion, when one who was near him had a sad countenance, he told her to be cheerful,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - Children's literature - 1842 - 418 pages
...naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile while all around thee weep." THE beautiful sentiment in the above stanza, translated from the Persian by Sir William Jones, struck... | |
| India - 1858 - 598 pages
...naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all aronnd thee smil'd ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. Now if we do not claim, and if few, but the most enthusiastic admirers of Jones, have ever claimed... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in emperor's table. But all the doctor's invitations and assurances could FRANCIS FAWKES. FBANCIS FAWKES (1721-1777) translated Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, and other classic poets,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in lans $ FRANCIS FAWKES. FRANCIS FAWKKS (1721-1777) translated Anacreon, Sapplio. Uion, and other classic poets,... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...naked new-bom child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smil'd ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. Translated Jrtm the Persian, by Sir W. Jtinct. The Chances of Fortune .... 33 Beauchamps 3C Rural Sketches,... | |
| John Seely Stone - 1848 - 666 pages
...naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep." • At this period he was evidently much engaged in reading, and in one of his letters describes his... | |
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