 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...vain. The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke 1 feel the solemn...departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond tho flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 588 pages
...no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the floqd. It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1810 - 278 pages
...loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angelspoke, 1 feel the soleum sound. If heatd aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes nnd fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1368 pages
...the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? With tho years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands...and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1813 - 324 pages
...no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. *• As if an angel spoke, I feel the soleton sound..' If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm' d, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...note of time But from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue, h wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Edward Young - Death - 1816 - 390 pages
...note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— on what fa fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
 | Edward Young - Fore-edge paintings - 1817 - 372 pages
...no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...beyond the flood. - It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...vain. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn...years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
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The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood... 
