 tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death ; From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?  Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services - Page 183by Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...smile and the tear and the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. XIV. 'Tis the twink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,...From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud — O why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! THE LAST HOURS or SIR WALTER RAWLEIGH. from il D'... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...tear, and the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. XIV. 'Tis the tu ink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the...From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud— 0 why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? DECISIVE CHARGE AT WATERLOO. On came the whirlwind —... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...other like surge upon surge. "Tis ths twink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a hreath, From the hlossom of health to the paleness of death, . From the gilded saloon to the hier and the shroud— O Why should the spirit of mortal he proud ! EVOX. SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT.... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the tear, and the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 'Tis the wink of an eye; 'tis the draught of a breath From the blossom...the shroud ; Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? MARIE R. LACOSTE. SOMEBODY'S DARLISO. INTO a ward of the whitewashed walls, Where the dead... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...and the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 'Tistbetwinkofaneye,'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health...from the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud— O why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! JCnor'j Songi ofltratt. Abridged from Lardner's Lectures... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - Church work with the sick - 1833 - 156 pages
...and the tear and the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the...From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud — O why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! Knox. TIME IS SHORT. THE time is short ! the season... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1838 - 584 pages
...and the tear, ami the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath From the blossom...From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud— THE NEW SERIES, VOLUME II. - NUMBER X. BETHANY, VA. OCTOBER, 1838. Discussion of Un i versal ism. MR.... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1838 - 540 pages
...the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. Tis the wink of an eye, 'in the draught of a breath From the blossom of health...the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud—— Q! vhy should the spirit, of mortal be proud? > • THE NEW SERIES. VOLUME II -- NUMBER X. BETHANY,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Ballads, English - 1844 - 188 pages
...the smile, and the tear, and the song, and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 'Tis the twink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,...the shroud — Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! HMB. (Brief mas scut tljcc for tljri good. SOME there are who seem exempted From the doom... | |
 | Court-partial - 1844 - 680 pages
...and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge, Tin the close of an eye, 'tis the draw of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness...and the shroud, Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! MONTGOMERY. I answered, if 'tis not amisi, I'd like to marry you. OLD SONG. SHALL we be... | |
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