 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...hearse, that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. —Where... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1823 - 194 pages
...tears have often started into my eyes when I have repeated, " I beard the bell toll on thy burial-day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, aud wept a last adieu !" 57 His mother died when he was quite a little boy, only six years old, and... | |
 | Author of the Buxton diamonds - 1824 - 160 pages
...from the beautiful poem written on the receipt of his mother's picture, many years after her death. " I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was ; where then art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee oa that peaceful shore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...unfelt, a kiss: Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss— Ah that maternal smile 1 It answers— Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such 1 — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 470 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes, I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss— r Ah, that maternal smile! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...But was it such ? — It was — where thou art gone Adiens and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such 1 — It was- — where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss— Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers—Yes. I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the...hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ?—It was.—Where... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. 1 heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, Vol. II. 16 I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was — where... | |
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It was. — Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern. 
