 | 1829 - 566 pàgines
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 | 1832 - 386 pàgines
...fled away, Swift as a gay hour's fancy ; fresh and cold As winter's shadow, with his eyelids sealed, Like violet lips at eve, he lies enrobed An offering to the grave ! but pure as when It winged from heaven, his spirit hath returned, To lisp its hallelujahs with the choirs Of sinless babes,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1834 - 264 pàgines
...looks,— Their infant once, the laughing, leaping boy, The bud of life, the nursling of their souls! Pain touch'd him, and the life-glow fled away. Swift as...eve, he lies enrobed An offering to the grave ; but, bright and pure The infant martyr hath to heaven return'd, To lisp its hallelujahs with the choirs... | |
 | R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 pàgines
...breezes laugh them into life ! Or listen to the mimic ocean-roar, Within the womb of spiral sea- shell wove : — From sight and sound to catch intense delight,...wing'd from heaven, his spirit hath return'd, To lisp his hallelujahs with the choirs Of sinless babes, imparadised above. THE PARTING SPIRIT. Farewell,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...fresh and cold As winter's shadow, with his eyelids seal'd Like violet lips at eve, he lies enrob'd An offering to the grave ! but, pure as when It wing'd...its hallelujahs with the choirs Of sinless babes, imparadis'd above. R. MONTGOMEEY. ISRAEL. ROMANS, XI. 23, 24 O ISRAEL ! happy in the days of yore,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pàgines
...Sed away, Swift as a gay hour's fancy ; fresh г nd cold As winters shadow, with his eyelids sealed, -Like violet lips at eve, he lies enrobed, An offering to the grave ! with »miles as when It winged from heaven, his spirit hath returned, To lisp its hallelujahs with... | |
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O'er a pale image, in the coffin laid, — Their infant once, the laughing, leaping boy, The paragon and nursling of their souls! Death touch'd him, and the life-glow fled away, Swift as a gay hour's fancy; fresh and cold As winter's shadow, with his... 