 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...first time, her first-b orn's breath ; — i Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the frail,... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine ; And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...broke, And crouded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible: the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; !ome when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible — the...all we know, or dream, or fear, Of agony, are thine. 3ut to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | Gift books - 1832 - 324 pages
...terrors ;' come as he will, we may well say to him, in the words of our gifted countryman, Halleck, — ' Thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell,...all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.' There is something inconceivably awful in standing on the shore of time, and endeavouring in vain to... | |
 | Gift books - 1832 - 320 pages
...terrors;' come as he will, we may well say to him, in the words of our gifted countryman, Halleck, — ' Thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the hier, And all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.' There is something inconceivably awful... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;— Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible: the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, tiie ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm,...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. Granting, however, to Marco Bozzaris, the minor excellences we have pointed out, we should be doing... | |
 | American poetry - 1834 - 402 pages
...And crowded cities wail its stroke ; — Come in Consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, — And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the... | |
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That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine: And thou art terrible —... 
