 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...pain, the bliss, of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife ; And let me languish into life. II. Hark ! they whisper. Angels say, Sister spirit, come...sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my spul, can this be death ? III. The world recedes : it disappears. Heaven opens on my eyes : my ears... | |
 | Robert Taylor Hunt - Hymns, English - 1825 - 382 pages
...the pain, the bliss of dying. Cease, fond native, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark ! they whisper, angels say, " Sister spirit come...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes, it disappears ;... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1825 - 516 pages
...Never were these words of the poet better applied than in her caw: — " What ie this absorb! me qnite. Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit,...draws my breath * Tell me, my soul, can this be death '" On the following day her funeral sermon was preached to a large, attentive, and weeping congregation,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...of heavenly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame : Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying — Oh the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark I they whisper ; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying ; O the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my... | |
 | 1825 - 132 pages
...spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame : Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper: angels say, Sister spirit, come away, What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 484 pages
...spark of heav'nly flame, Quit, Oh quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying : O the pain, the bliss, of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife ; And let me languish into life. II. Hark ! they whisper. Angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is (his absorbs me quite, Steals... | |
 | Select poetry - English poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying ; Oh the pain, the bliss, of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark ! they whisper — angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite,... | |
 | Timothy East - Death - 1825 - 390 pages
...Father's throne ;" but he again revived a little, and said, " Nature is sinking, but grace triumphing ! ' Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life.' " Near one o'clock on Thursday morning, he wished us to sing •' The Dying Christian ;" after this... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - Ellora (India) - 1825 - 650 pages
...men, as they approach that awful moment described by Mr. Pope, in his beautiful ode to the Soul — " What is this absorbs me quite — Steals my senses, shuts my sight ?" Even when that time comes as a relief to the good, to the suffering spirit of the evil-doer it affords... | |
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Hark! they whisper: angels say, "Sister spirit, come away!" What is this absorbs me quite, — Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath? 
