 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
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...man Had never, sure, been born. Had there not been some recompense To ccmfort 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 Withe*. WHEN with a... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! " 0 Death ! the poor man's dearest friendThe kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour, my aged limbs...pleasure torn ! But, oh ! a blest relief to those That weary -laden mourn." XXVII. TO RUIN. ["I have been," says Burns, in his common-placo book, "taking... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...not been some recompense To ccmfort those that mourn ! " O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend,The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs...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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...Seott's Lady of the Lake. When musing on eompanions gore, Wo doubly feel ourselves alone. Seolfs Marmion. O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Weleome the hour, my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest! Burnt. What a world were this, How unendurable... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 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, wheresoe'er you ve, Thai bide the pelting of this pitiless storm... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn! O Dealt! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the...the wealthy, fear thy blow. From pomp and pleasure lorn ; But oil! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn! .. EDMUND BORKE. 1730—1797. THIS... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...poor, oppressed, honest man, Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense ' Oli, Death ! the poor man's dearest friend — The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour, my aged limbs Arc laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ! But,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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...rest! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pornp and pleasure torn j But, oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn! EDMUND BURKE. 1730—1797.... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...To ccmfort those that mourn ! " 0 Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best 1 Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee...fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ! But, O, a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! " THE MARIGOLD. — George WiAer. WHEN with a serious... | |
 | Robert Holmes (author of Orphan Upton.) - 1858 - 340 pages
...heavy heart could find no more suitable words in which to express itself, than the following : — " O death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my weary limbi Are laid with thee at rest. The great, the wealthy, fear thy hlow, From pomp and pleasure... | |
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