 Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.  An American Bible - Page 131edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Hovey - 1896 - 236 pages
...Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines," he sings that most exquisite of threnodies: — " Come lovely and soothing Death. Undulate round the...to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate Death." And as the bird sings, the sight that was bound in the poet's eyes uncloses, and he sees, as in noiseless... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 602 pages
...hands my comrades in the night. And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come, loi'efy and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. Praised be the fathomless universe. For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 474 pages
...their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. — Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...love, sweet love — but praise ! praise ! praise ! VFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1897 - 84 pages
...musical words of faith and fearlessness with which these pages shall be embellished. '"DEATH CAROL. " Come, lovely and soothing Death; Undulate round the...to all, to each; Sooner or later; delicate Death. " Praised be the fathomless universe; For life and joy ; and for objects and knowledge curious; And... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 500 pages
...hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come loi'ely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely...night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prats' d be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and far objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 690 pages
...if by their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come, lovely and soothing death. Undulate round the...arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Praised be the fathomless universe. For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 pages
...arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prats'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge furious. And for love, sweet love — but f raise ! praise ! praise I For ihe sure-enwinding arms of... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1897 - 484 pages
...if by their hands my comrades in the night, And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, Jn the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prats 'd be the fathomless... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1898 - 406 pages
...character4 . These line's of his own upon death were spoken ,at his funeral. XIV A SONG OF PRAISE TO DEATH Come, lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death. Praised be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for... | |
 | 1899 - 438 pages
...bird I know received us comrades three, And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love." " Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the...love, sweet love, But praise, praise, praise, For the sure enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother, always gliding near with soft feet, Have... | |
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