| Joseph Casimir Sasia - Future life - 1918 - 580 pages
...viii. 18. The world recedes, it disappears; Heaven opens to my eyes — my ears With sound seraphic ring Lend, lend your wings ; I mount, I fly ! O Grave, where is thy victory ? O Death, where is thy sting ? — POPE. Dear reader, through the boundless mercy, goodness,... | |
| Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...? 0 death, where is thy sting ? ") Cf. Alexander Pope (" The Dying Christian to his Soul ") : — " Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave ! where is thy victory 1 O death ! where is thy sting ? " During the Great European War, about September, 1916, the... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...was born. 4 The world recedes; it disappears; Heav'n opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic wer is the most flagrant of all the passions. TACITUS— Annales. victory? O Death! where is thy sting? POPE — The Dying Christian to His Soul. s Vital spark of heavenly... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...Death? ia The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy Victory ? O Death! where is thy Sting? '« I7lt. Mtrantler Pope. THE QUIET HEART QUIET, Lord, my froward... | |
| Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...Death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy victory ? O Death ! where is thy sting ? Ode on Solitude Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal... | |
| Gordon Crosse - Religious poetry, English - 1924 - 288 pages
...death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave, where is thy victory ? O Death, where is thy sting? Alexander Pope. 134 THE DESPONDING SOUL'S WISH: DESIDERIUM Mv... | |
| Amy Louise Reed - English poetry - 1924 - 300 pages
...an emotional fervor not found in Pope's more characteristic work. The dying man calls to the angels, Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! Where is thy Victory? O Death! Where is thy Sting?55 The fervor, however, is caught from the models Pope had been... | |
| Readers - 1925 - 582 pages
...this be Death? The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave ! where is thy Victory ? O Death ! where is thy Sting ? The Quiet Heart BY JOHN NEWTON. Quiet, Lord, my froward heart,... | |
| Thomas Walsh - Catholic literature - 1927 - 582 pages
...this be death? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring; Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly O Grave! where is thy victory? THE VESTAL ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by... | |
| Edmondstoune Duncan - Ballads, English - 1927 - 634 pages
...? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy victory? O Death ! where is thy sting ? Set by Schubert, in Herder's translation, as Vcrkl'irung (Breitkopf... | |
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