 There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her even to tears. The spoiler set His seal of silence. But there beamed a smile So fixed and holy from that marble brow, — Death gazed, and left it there ;...  The Ladies' Pearl: A Monthly Magazine - Page 291841Full view - About this book
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...bound The silken fringes of those curtaining lids Forever. There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her even to tears. The spoiler set The seal of silence. But there beamed a smile, So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow, Death gazed,... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...The silken fringes of those curtaining lids For ever. There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her even to tears. The spoiler set The seal of silence. But there beamed a smile, So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow, Death gazed,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...bound The silken fringes of those curtaining lids Forever. There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her...seal of silence. But there beamed a smile So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow, Death gazed—and left it there. He dared not steal The signet-ring... | |
 | United States. 50th Congress, 2d session - 1889 - 140 pages
...The spoiler had set the seal of silence. But there beamed a smile, So fixed, so holy, from that manly brow. Death gazed and left it there. He dared not steal The signet ring of Heaven. Of the many sad associations- that cling about this histoi'ic hall none cast... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...The silken fringes of those curtaining lids For ever. There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her even to tears. The spoiler set The seal of silence. But there beamed a smile, So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow, Death gazed,... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...silken fringes of those curtaining lids Forever. There had been a murmuring sound With which the»babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her even to...seal of silence. But there beamed a smile So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow, Death gazed, and left it there. He dared not steal The signet ring... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...The silken fringes of those curtaining lids For ever. There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her even to tears. The spoiler set The seal of silence. But there beamed a smile, So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow, Death gazed,... | |
 | Missions - 1849 - 456 pages
...their curtaining lids For ever. There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim the mother's ear, Charming her even to tears — the spoiler...it there — he dared not steal The signet-ring of heaveu. Frum the Northern Citizen. A SONG FOR THE 8EA. WHEN the lonely watch we keep, Silent on the... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1912 - 832 pages
...The silken fringes of those curtaining lids Forever. — There had been a murmuring sound, With which the babe would claim its mother's ear, Charming her...of silence. — But there beamed a smile So fixed, so holy, from the cherub brow, Death gazed — and left it there. He dared not steal The signet-ring... | |
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