 | Alexander Pope - 1854
...Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in Heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think,... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 414 pages
...Why dimly gleams the visionary sword? Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart ? To act a Roman's or a lover's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think... | |
 | Morbida - 1854 - 168 pages
...myself; but hark thee, Charmian." t " Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in Heaven, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ?" The deadly hour of deep Gethsemane, Went forth to bear and conquer... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 754 pages
...gored? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O ever beauteous, ever friendly, tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 576 pages
...dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ! ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it in heav'na erime to love too well ? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To aet a lover's, or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1856
...The Adventurer.' — 1 See Memoir. Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, 5 Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too •well ? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 381 pages
...gored ? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O ever beauteous, ever friendly, tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897
...? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O, ever beauteous ! ever friendly ! tell, Is it in Heav'na crime to love too well ? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - Elegiac poetry - 1900 - 236 pages
...Why dimly gleams the visionary sword? Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly 1 tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1027 pages
...? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O ever beauteous ! ever friendly ! tell, Is it in Heav'na crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think... | |
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Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ?... 
