 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 pages
...miserably old. 6. Should I reveal the sources of my grief, If soft humanity e'er touched your breast, Your hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity would not be repressed. 7. Heaven sends misfortunes ; why should we repine ? 'Tis Heaven has brought me to the state... | |
 | 1877 - 508 pages
...miserably old. Should I reveal the sources of my grief, If soft humanity e'er touch'd your breast, Your hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity would not be represt. • The rhymes of the Hebrew version of "The Beggar's Petition" are Dittyllabie throughout.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pages
...miserably old. Should I reveal the source of every grief, If soft humanity e'er touched your breast, Your hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity could not be repressed. Heaven sends misfortunes — why should we repine ? 'T is heaven has brought... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...miserably old. Should I reveal the source of every grief, If soft humanity e'er touched your breast, numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and ill shadiest c could not be repressed. Heaven sends misfortunes, — why should we repine ? 'T is Heaven has brought... | |
 | 1881 - 364 pages
...miserably old. Should I reveal the sources of my grief, If soft humanity e'er touch'd your breast, Your hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity would not be represt. * The rhymes of the Hebrew version of "The Beggar's Petition" are Dissyllable throughout.... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...miserably old. Should I reveal the sources of my grief, If soft humanity e'er touch'd your breast, hope can shake the frame Of his resolved powers ; nor all the wind Of vanity repress'd. Heaven sends misfortunes ; why should we repine ? 'Tis Heaven has brought me to the state... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...friendly tomb, Should I reveal the nonrcc of every grief, If soft humanity eVr touched your breast. Your hands would not withhold the kind relief. And tears of pity could not be repressed. Heaven Bends miffortnnci — why shook! we repine? *TlB Heaven has* brought... | |
 | Eye, J. S. S. Rothwell - 1882 - 48 pages
...flood of tears. Should I reveal the sources of my grief, If soft humanity e'er touch'd your breast, Your hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity would not be repress'd. A little farm was my paternal lot; Then, like the lark, I sprigthly hailed the morn ; But,... | |
 | 1888 - 344 pages
...miserably old. Should I reveal the sources of my grief, If soft humanity e'er touch'd your breast, Vour hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity would not be repressed. And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery. A little farm... | |
 | 1888 - 344 pages
...miserably old. Should I reveal the sources of my grief, If soft humanity e'er touch'd your breast, Your hands would not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity would not be repressed. Heaven sends misfortunes ; why should we repine ? 'Tis Heaven has brought me to the state... | |
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Oh take me to your hospitable dome ! Keen blows the wind, and piercing is the cold ! Short is my passage to the friendly tomb, For I am poor, and miserably old. 
