 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 372 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,...all we know, or dream, or fear, Of agony, are thine. NOTE. — « Moslem (moz'lem) ; Mussulmans, orthodo* Mohammedan«. 6. But to the hero, when his sword... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought !" ADDISON. Examples of the falling and rising Iiiflections. "The tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear — " An excursion on the highway may as clearly as any other way, point out the five inflections of... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1851 - 252 pages
...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 knel], the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero,... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...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 w ine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...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...But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle ibr the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...pleaiure, not a pain." 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 tliou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Domestic relations - 1853 - 334 pages
...motionless corpse, cold, stiff, and marblelike, has not revolted at the thought of death ! "And death is terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,...bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear, Of agony, arc his ! " * The closed and sunken eye that once beamed with intelligence, or flashed with delight... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Domestic relations - 1853 - 322 pages
...motionless eorpse, eold, stiff, and marblelike, has not revolted at the thought of death I "And death is terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear, Of ngony, are hu !" * The elosed and sunken eye that onee beamed with intelligenee, or flashed with delight;... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...its stroke : — Come in Consumption's ghastly form, The earthqnake 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, or... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 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,...free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in ita hollow tones are heard "i^ The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought... | |
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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... 
