| John Bell - English poetry - 1799 - 402 pages
...debt, 1 think it mercy if thou wilt forget. DEATH ! be not proud, tho' some have called thee Mighly and dreadful, for thou art not so ; For those whom...thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death ! nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure, then from... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...claim as debt ; 1 think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. DEATH.be not proud, though some have called thce Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; For those,...think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death ; nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture be, Much pleasure; then from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...black memory : That tliun remember them, some claim as debt; 1 think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. X. DEATH, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; I'or those, whom thou Ihink'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death ; nor yet canst < lion kill... | |
| English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...lies, whose songs did some time grace The murmuring Esk : may roses shade the place ! 107 JOHN DONNE. DEATH, be not proud, though some have called thee...think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death ; nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure ; then... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - Crime - 1833 - 246 pages
...child! Remember," he added, closing the door, " remember,—one month, and Hugh Dalton!" CHAPTER II. * Death ! be not proud, though some have called thee...art not so ; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthow, Die not, poor Death ' Wby swell'st thou, then ? one short sleep past, we wake eternally;... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - Pirates - 1833 - 420 pages
...that, would be as honest a one as the best." He paused ; the Baronet groaned audibly. CHAPTER II. - Death! be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; Fnr those whom thou think'st thou dost overthow, Die not, poor Death — Why swell's! thou, then... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 408 pages
...thought on Death is not unworthy of the bard who knelt at " the footstool of the Ancient of Days." Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty...think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me ; From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from... | |
| Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...ground, Teach me how to repent ; for that 's as good As if thou hadst sealed my pardon with thy blood. V. DEATH, be not proud, though some have called thee...think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me : From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from... | |
| Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...ground, Teach me how to repent ; for that 's as good As if thou hadst sealed my pardon with thy blood. V. DEATH, be not proud, though some have called thee...think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me : From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then* from... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...thought on Death is not unworthy of the bard who knelt at " the footstool of the Ancient of Days :" — Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty...think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me ; From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from... | |
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