 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, the bier; And all we know,...  Kettell, Samuel: Specimens of American Poetry... - Page 1711829Full view - About this book
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the. mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come, when the blessed seals That close the...stroke; ' Come in consumption's ghastly form, — The earthquake's shock, the ocean storm ; Come, when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song,... | |
 | American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...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 teirible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the...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,... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...the bridal chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the...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,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother's, when she feels. For the first time, her first-born's and fled amain With hurry nnd dash to the beach again...flVct, And with all his might he Hinge his feet, banquet song, and dance, and wine ; And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the...its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake's shock, the ocean's storm ; 1 Plataea, (pl& to' a), a ruined city featecl and nearly annihilated... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her firstborn's breath; Come when the blessed seals .That close the...With banquet-song, and dance, and wine And thou art terrible—the tear, The groan, the knell, the pull, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...the bridal chamber, — Death! Come to the mother, when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the...form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm, Come whea the heart beats high and warm With banquet-song and dance and wine, — And thou art terrible... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - Elocution - 1867 - 106 pages
...first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence nre broke, And crowded cities wait its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form ;...storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With baiiquet-song, and dance, aud wine; And thou art terrible. The tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,... | |
 | John Mitchell Bonnell - English language - 1867 - 372 pages
...these sensations, and that I could, at pleasure, destroy and renew this beautiful part of my existence. Come when the heart beats high and warm with banquet-song and dance and wine, and thou art terrible. XVII. CONTRACTION OF COMPLEX SENTENCES. § 187. Complex sentences are capable of contraction, as well... | |
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