 DEATH OF AN INFANT. Death found strange beauty on that cherub brow, And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip ; — he touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes There spake a wishful tenderness, —...  The Republic - Page 1521851Full view - About this book
 | Quakers - 1862 - 246 pages
...beauty en that cherub brow, And dashed it oat. — There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip ; — lie touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded — forth from those dark eyefir Tk-ere spake a wi-ljful tenderness, — a doubt Whether to grieve or sleep, which Innocence... | |
 | S. Phillips - History - 1865 - 392 pages
...it:— " Death found strange beauty on that polished brow, And dashed it out— There was a tint cf rose On cheek and lip. He touched the veins with ice, And...Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound The silken fringes of those curtained lids Forever. There had... | |
 | William Edward Schenck - Children - 1865 - 354 pages
...SIGODRNEY. DEATH found strange beauty on that polished brow, And dashed it out. — There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip. — He touched the veins with ice,...Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound The silken fringes of those curtaining lids Fqr^ever. — There... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...beauty on that polish'd brow, And dash'd it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip. He touch'd the veins with ice, And the rose faded. Forth from...Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound The silken fringes of those curtaining lids Forever. There had... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - Booksellers and bookselling - 1866 - 412 pages
..." Death found strange beauty on that polished brow, And dashed it out — There was a tint of rose* On cheek and lip. He touched the veins with ice, And...tenderness, a doubt Whether to grieve -or sleep, which innooence Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound The silken fringes of those curtained lids Forever.... | |
 | Gathered grain - Christian life - 1871 - 366 pages
...INFANT. Death found strange beauty in that cherub brow, And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip : — he touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded. Forth from those hazel eyes There spake a wistful tendency, — a doubt Whether to grieve or sleep, — which innocence... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1872 - 542 pages
...DKXTII found strange beauty on that polished brow. And dashed it out There was a tint of ross On check and lip. He touched the veins with ice, And the rose...Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound The silken fringes of those curtaining lids For ever. There... | |
 | James Hiles Hitchens - Dissenters, Religious - 1875 - 204 pages
...sickness. " Death found strange beauty on that cherub brow, And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip ; he touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded. * * * * * There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would charm its mother's car, Charming... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - Death - 1883 - 410 pages
...: — "Death found strange beauty on that polished brow And dashed it out. There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip. He touched the veins with ice, And the rose faded. 1 " Those words of the Apocalypse, ' These are they in whose mouth was found no guile, for they are... | |
 | Bishop Samuel Fallows - 1884 - 524 pages
...INFANT. DEATH found strange beauty on that polished brow. And dashed it out. — There was a tint of rose On cheek and lip. — He touched the veins with ice,...Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound The silken fringes of those curtaining lids For ever. — There... | |
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