 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...even then, life's journey just begun ? I hear'd the bell, toll'd /oh thy burial day, I saw the'hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry...window, drew A long, lon'g sigh, and wept a last adieu. In both these examples the voice preserves the rising slide, till, in the former'we come to the last... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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. 1 heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...son, Wretched e'en then, life's journey just begun 1 Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kin ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah,...maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thce slow away, And, turning from my nursery window,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 356 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....smile, it answers, yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy funeral day; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away; And turning, from my nursery window, drew A... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 360 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....smile, it answers, yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy funeral day ; I ,saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And turning, from my nursery window, drew... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...Son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiti , 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, 1 saw the hearse that lx>re thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...sorrowing 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 tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...sorrowing 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 ! y I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...sorrowing 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'. "Herd. '-Me. «Wer. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day'; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss...hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. Where... | |
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I heard the bell toll'd 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 a last adieu ! But was it such? 
