| Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 pages
...FUNERAL HYMN. TT 7HEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, • * And the great star* early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned ... and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring ! trinity sure to me you bring ; Lilac blooming perennial,... | |
| American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN. WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned — and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring ! trinity sure to me you bring ; Lilac blooming perennial,... | |
| American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN. 1. WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned — and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring ! trinity sure to me you bring ; Lilac blooming perennial,... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 pages
...and more or less beautiful throughout. Thus it begins : — When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky...the night, I mourned — and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring ! trinity sure to me you bring ; Lilac blooming perennial,... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 pages
...and more or less beautiful throughout. Thus it begins :— When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourned—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring ! trinity sure to... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 362 pages
...resulting from the war and its episodes" — EC Stedman.] WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 352 pages
...resulting from the war and its episodes." — EC Stedman.] WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me... | |
| William Clarke - 1892 - 162 pages
...from that magnificent Burial Hymn of President Lincoln : " When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. " With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous,... | |
| William Gay - 1893 - 68 pages
...example, beginning — When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever returning spring — for intense and lofty feeling is not surpassed by any elegiac poem in the English" language. Even... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - 1893 - 856 pages
...is unavoidable, let us read the opening four divisions : When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with everreturning Spring. Ever-returning Spring, trinity sure to me you... | |
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