| Charles Sprague - 1829 - 66 páginas
...a ripple plays ; How eloquent, how awful in its power, The silent lecture of death's sabbath-hour; One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said,...resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; 24 Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er, Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more ; Down,... | |
| 1830 - 592 páginas
...curious view ; The setting sun flings round his farewell rays, O'er the broad ocean not a ripple plays ; How eloquent, how awful in its power, The silent lecture...With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep.' pp. 24, 25. Mr Sprague's language is simple and nervous, and his imagery brilliant and striking. There... | |
| 1830 - 642 páginas
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| Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1833 - 550 páginas
...hear ; We know, aloa ! that he is marked for death, But let his Mother watch his parting breath; О let him die at home ! It could not be : At midnight,...pays to man is paid : The plashing waters mark his resting place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er,... | |
| 534 páginas
...death's sahhath hour! One voice that silence hreaks— the prayer is said, And the last rite man pavs to man is paid ; The plashing waters mark his resting-place, And fold him round in one Iong cold emhrace? Bright hahhles for a moment sparkle o'er, Then hreak, to he (like him) heheld no... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 páginas
...a ripple plays ; How eloquent, how awful in its power, The silent lecture of death's sabbath-hour : One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said,...the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing water marks his resting-place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; Bright bubbles for a... | |
| Charles Sprague - 1841 - 222 páginas
...ripple plays ; How eloquent, how awful in its power, The silent lecture of death's Sabbath-hour! 3* One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said,...With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep. " Alps rise on Alps " — in vain my muse essays To lay the spirit that she dared to raise. What spreading... | |
| George Merriam - 1841 - 308 páginas
...in its power, The silent lecture of death's Sabbath-hour ! 21. One voice that silence breaks—the prayer is said, And the last rite man pays to man...With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep. LESSON LXXXVIII. Washing-Day. 1. THE Muses are turned gossips ; they have lost The buskined step, and... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 páginas
...power, The silent lecture of death's Sabbath-hour: One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is siid, And the last rite man pays to man is paid ; The plashing...With all the nameless shapes that haunt the deep. " Alps rise on Alps" — in vain my muse essays To lay the spirit that she dared to raise : What spreading... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 páginas
...a ripple plays ; How eloquent, how awful in its power, The silent lecture of death's Sabbath-hour : One voice that silence breaks — the prayer is said,...sinks to sleep, With all the nameless shapes that hnunt the deep. "Alps rise on Alps" — in vain my muse essays To lay the spirit that she dared to... | |
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