 | Voyages around the world - 1840 - 350 pages
...vaults, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems:" There indeed may the lonely ones " Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while...from all around — Earth and her waters, and the dcplbs of air, Comes a still voice." Having passed around the veranda to the opposite side of the garden,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Consolation - 1840 - 230 pages
...regret and sorrow ; -When thoughts of the last bitter hand Come like a blight over our spirits, And the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make us to shudder, and grow sick at heart.' Let us, however, take another view of it. Notwithstanding the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1841 - 422 pages
...darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of airComes a still voice — Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...musings | with a mild And gentle sym'pathy | that steals away Their sharpness, | ere he is aware. | When thoughts Of the last bitter hour, ! come like a blight Over thy spirk ; | and sad images" Of the stern , agony,b | and shroud', \ and pall', \ And breathless dark/ness,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stem agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...to shudder, and grow sick at heart; — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...to shudder, and grow sick at heart ; — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 294 pages
...darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the ster n agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...dark musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. 2. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour, come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice : — Yet a few days, and thee,... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - Christian ethics - 1844 - 572 pages
...The passage is from the works of the American poet Bryant-- and deserves to be universally known. -" When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heartGo forth under the open sky, and list To nature's teachings : while from all around — Earth... | |
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When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house... 
