 O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn...  The poetical works of Robert Burns - Page 160by Robert Burns - 1814 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense " Oh Death ! the poor man's dearest friendThe kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour, my aged limbs...Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, feel thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ! But, oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...Had never, sure, been bom, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! XL " О death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome tho hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp... | |
 | Calendars - 1852 - 340 pages
...man Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn! Oh death ! the poor man's dearest friend — The kindest...! a blest relief to those That weary-laden, mourn. BUKMS. DECEMBER 11. In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. —... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...must have been that since so ably expressed by his country's inspired ploughboy : — " Oh Death I the poor man's dearest friend— The kindest and the...the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure tornl But, oh ! a blest relief to those That, wearyladen. mourn " BURNS. John Harrington, one of the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! XI. " 0 tion's ever0 thec at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But O ! a bless'd... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...honest man, Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn. O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend ! The kindest...a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn! A WINTER NIGHT. Poor naked wretches, wheresoever you are, That bide .the pelting of this pitiless storm!... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...man Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! " O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, — The kindest...fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ! But, O, a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! " THE MARIGOLD. — George Wither. WHEN with a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...man, Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! 0 Death! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest...fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, oil ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! EDMUND BURKE. 1730—1797. THIS most distinguished... | |
 | James Henry Powell - 1854 - 152 pages
...man Had never sure been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn. " ' 0 Death ! the poor man's dearest friend — The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour myjaged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! Oh Death ! the poor man's dearest friendThe kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour, my aged limbs...But, oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden rnourn ! " ®na -KnnsB, ON TURNING UP HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, November 1785. (63.) WEE, sleekit,... | |
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