 Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! — it answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept...  Poems - Page 398by William Cowper - 1850 - 514 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1803 - 310 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.......maternal smile ! it answers. ...Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window,... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss...maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss ; terhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss— Ah that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy 'burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...son, Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss i Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. Ah that...maternal smile, it answers, yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore the slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...thy spirit o'er thy sorr'wiug son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls...maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...if souls can weep in bliss — Ah that maternal smile! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew so A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such? — It was —... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...thy spirit o'er thy sorr'wing son. Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss—- Ah that maternal smile! it answers—Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss...nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adien ! But was it such ? — it was. — Where thou art gone Adiens and farewells are a sound unknown.... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch ev'n then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gavest...kiss; ) Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — C. Ah, that maternal smile! it answers — Yes. \ I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I... | |
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...Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed? Huver'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch ev'n then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gavest...kiss; ) Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — C Ah, that maternal smile! it answers — Yes. \ I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial diiy, I... | |
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