| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...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 blossom of health...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
...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 blossom of health...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 —... | |
| 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
...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 of health...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 - 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
...song, and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 'Tis the twink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health...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... | |
| William Knox - Christian poetry, English - 1847 - 240 pages
...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, From the blossom of health...From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud — O why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! THE TRIUMPH OF DAVID. (1 SAMUEL, xviii. 7.) Go strike... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...song, and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. 'Tis the twink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health...the shroud — Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! WILLIAM KNOX. YOUTH AND AGE. On ! Youth is like the springtide morn, When roses bloom on... | |
| Poetry - 1849 - 314 pages
...break of the wave — He passes from life to his rest in the grave ! 'T is the twink of an eye, "t is the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health...From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud: Then why should the spirit of mortal be proud ?" Farewell, city of the dead ! The setting sunbeams... | |
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