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" I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. "
The School board readers. Standard i(iii-vi), ed. by a former H.M. inspector ... - Page 198
by School board readers - 1872
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1899 - 660 pages
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the ..., Volume 7

William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...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...was it such ? — 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...
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Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey

William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...gavest me, though unseen, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. 1 heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee...window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu. He was old enough, too, if not to understand the greatness of his loss, to be made sensible of its...
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The Reader and Speaker: Containing Lessons for Rhetorical Reading and ...

Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...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...
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Visit to Constantinople and Athens

Walter Colton - 1836 - 380 pages
...oegunl Perhaps thou gavest me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee far away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu '." ....
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems ..., Volume 10

William Cowper - 1837 - 436 pages
...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...But was it such ? — 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...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the heaise that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu...was it such ? — 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...
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Poems ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by John M'Diarmid ...

William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thec slow away. And, turning from my nurs'ry window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu...was it such ? — 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...
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...begun? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. I heard...was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. , May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...souls can weep in bliss : Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes. 2. 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...
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