| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...o'er her myrtle showers Its leaves, by soft winds fanned; She faded 'midst Italian flowers — Tlie last of that bright band. And parted thus they rest,...the hearth — Alas! for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, on earth 1 THE TREASURES OF THE DEEP. What hidest thou in thy treasure-caves and cells,... | |
| N. Leitch - 1851 - 234 pages
...one, o'er her the myrtle showers Its leaves by soft winds fann'd, She faded 'midst Italian bowers, The last of that bright band. And parted thus they...parent knee. They that with smiles lit up the hall, And cheer'd with mirth the hearth — Alas for love! if this were all, And nought beyond an earth! Mrs.... | |
| Augustus Charles Thompson - 1851 - 244 pages
...blood-red field of Spain." " And one —o'er her the myrtle showers Its leaves, by soft winds fanned j She faded midst Italian flowers, The last of that...voices mingled as they prayed Around one parent knee ! " No, they are not in those scattered graves. If they had been so many automata, if parental hearts... | |
| 1852 - 316 pages
...He was the loved of all, yet none O 'or his low bed may weep. And one— o'er her the myrtle showen Its leaves, by soft winds fanned ; She faded 'midst...they rest, who played Beneath the same green tree ; Wnose voices mingled as they prayed Around one parent knee l They that with smiles lit up the hall,... | |
| 1852 - 302 pages
...his colors round his breast, On a blood-red field of Spain. " And one—o'er her the myrrh showers Its leaves, by soft winds fanned; She faded midst Italian flowers— The last of that bright band." The grave was grassed over and some stranger's hand had planted a bunch of violets at its head. It... | |
| 1852 - 302 pages
...blood-red field of Spain. And one — o'er her the myrtle showera Its leaves, by soft winds fann'd ; She faded midst Italian flowers, The last of that bright band. And parted thus they rest who play'd Beneath the same green tree ; Whose voices mingled as they pray'd Around one parent knee ! They... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 604 pages
...blood-red field of Spain. And one— o'er her the myrtle showers Its leaves, by soft winds fann'd ; She faded 'midst Italian flowers — The last of that bright band. And parted thus they rest, who play'd Beneath the same green tree ; Whose voices mingled as they pray'd Around one parent knee ! They... | |
| Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 pages
...his colors round his breast On a blood-red field of Spain. And one — o'er her the myrtle showers Its leaves, by soft winds fanned ; She faded 'midst...cheered with song the hearth — Alas for love, if thou wcrt all, And nought beyond, 0 earth ! 112 EETROSPECT. RETROSPECT. MF TUPPBR. How many years are fled... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 296 pages
...wrapt his colours round his breast On a blood-red field of Spain. And one—o'er her the myrtle showers Its leaves, by soft winds fanned ; She faded midst...lit up the hall, And cheered with song the hearth !—• MOZART'S REQUIEM [ " A SHORT time before the death of Mozart, a stranger of remarkable appearance,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 420 pages
...blood-red field of Spain. And one — o'er her the myrtle showers Its leaves, by soft winds fann'd ; She faded 'midst Italian flowers — The last of that bright band. And parted thus they rest, who play'd Beneath the same green tree ; Whose voices mingled as they pray'd Around one parent knee ! They... | |
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