 | 1825 - 516 pages
...Never were these words of the poet better applied than in her caw: — " What ie this absorb! me qnite. Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit,...draws my breath * Tell me, my soul, can this be death '" On the following day her funeral sermon was preached to a large, attentive, and weeping congregation,... | |
 | 1825 - 208 pages
...strife, And let me languish into life ; Hark ! they whisper, angels say, Sister, Spirit come away. 3 What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight ; Drowns my spirits, draws my breath — Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 4 The world recedes, it disappears,... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 650 pages
...men, as they approach that awful moment described by Mr. Pope, in his beautiful ode to the Soul — " What is this absorbs me quite — Steals my senses, shuts my sight ?" Even when that time comes as a relief to the good, to the suffering spirit of the evil-doer it affords... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...lingering,'flying, .• — f -i •. .- -I 10 Hark! they whisper—angels say, -.3,-•i,..,; <,-••. " Sister spirit, come away"— What is this absorbs....., - ~ Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ?•— Tell me, my soul, can this be—death? With sounds seraphic ring!... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder, Isaac Watts - 1826 - 476 pages
...of dying I Cease, fond nature T cease thy strife} ••**.And let me languish into life ! '•"(' 2 Hark ! they whisper — angels say, - * . ' Sister spirit, come away!' What is this absorbs roe quite, •Steals my senses, shuts, my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath,?.—, \\r,-- Tell... | |
 | 1827 - 162 pages
...the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper ! angels say, Sister spirit, come...draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 3 The world recedes, it disappears ! Heaven opens on mine eyes ! mine ears With sounds seraphic ring... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes; it disappears!... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature! cease thy strife. And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper, angels say, Sister spirit, come...this be death ? The world recedes, it disappears! With sounds seraphic ring: Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly'... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1828 - 380 pages
...the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit,...draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 3 The world recedes ; it disappears ; Heaven opens on my eyes ; my ears With sounds seraphic ring... | |
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Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death? The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes!... 
