 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 էջ
...Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — 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 my nursery window,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 էջ
...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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 էջ
...Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss : Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. 2. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day • I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 էջ
...Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss, — Ah ! that maternal smile, it answers YES." Here my misfortunes did not end ; I was seized by the small pox, and for want of a mother's care, and... | |
 | 1838 - 588 էջ
...thou wast dead, How Rad and tearful were the tears I shed ! I heard the bell tolled on thy funeral 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.' COWPKR How well I can remember one... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 590 էջ
...thou wast dead, How ead and fearful were the tears I shed ! I heard the bell tolled on thy funeral day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And turning from in y nursery-window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu.' COWPM. How well I can remember... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 էջ
...Wreteh even then, life's journey just begun ! Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal...nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adicu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone Adiens and farewells are a sound unknown.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 էջ
...Wretch even then, life's journey just begun. Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss — Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah ! that maternal...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 352 էջ
...unseen, a 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...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 354 էջ
...unseen, a 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...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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Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; 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 my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu... 
