 | William Cowper - 1837 - 436 pages
...that maternal smile ! — it answers — Yes. ) I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from...but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the heaise that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu...but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, griev'd themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thec slow away. And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu...but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, griev'd themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the heaise that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it sueh ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...— 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, And, turning from...but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...toll'd on thy burial day • I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu....art gone, Adieus and farewells, are a sound unknown. And if this meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more 3. Thy maidens,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...reader of his poetry:— I heard the bell toll : on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee sad away ; And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu. Hayley says, " The little Cowper was sent to his first school in the year of his mother's death;" and... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...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...but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise... | |
 | Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...bliss— Ah, that maternal smile! it answers—Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from...sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ?—It was.—Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful... | |
 | Robert Southey - Hymn writers - 1839 - 354 pages
...kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. 1 heard the bell tolled on thy burial-day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning from...window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu. a boarding-school, the first of those sad changes through which a gentle spirit has to pass in this... | |
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I heard the bell tolled 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 ? It was. Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.... 
