O'er Sappho's memory-haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep On nameless sorrow's churchyard pillow. O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till Death pours out his cordial wine Slow-dropped from Misery's... The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table - Σελίδα 307των Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 343 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 σελίδες
...number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy fame is proud to win them : — Alas for those that never sing. But die with all their music in them !...were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven I J)OSOTSr Q. A FAMILY PORTRAIT. GBANDMOTHEE'S mother: her age I guess, Thirteen summers, or something... | |
| 1875 - 828 σελίδες
...sorrow's churchyard pillow. " Oh, hearts that break and give no sign, Save whitening lips and faded tresses, Till death pours out his cordial wine, Slow-dropped...melodies were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven ! " How sacred is the grief of the living for the dead ! When those we love die, a part of ourselves... | |
| 1859 - 534 σελίδες
...haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep On nameless sorrow's church-yard pillow. 0 hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening...melodies were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven !" The Divine Ownership of Man. We have received in pamphlet form, a Sermon, rich in consolation, bearing... | |
| 1859 - 440 σελίδες
...cordial wino Slow-dropped from Misery's crushing presses — If singing breath or echoing cord To evcrv hidden pang were given, What endless melodies were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven ! DOBEBAN, AUGUST 14, 1858. — MR. D WIGHT : Dear Sir, — Remembering my promise to write you about... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 σελίδες
...number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them !...melodies were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven ! THE CROOKED FOOTPATH. An, here it is ! the sliding rail That marks the old remembered spot, • The... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 σελίδες
...string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all then- music in them ! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone...pang were given, What endless melodies were poured, Aa sad as earth, as sweet as heaven ! THE CEOOKED FOOTPATH. AH, here it is ! the sliding rail That... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 σελίδες
...Leucadian breezes sweep O'er Sappho's memory-haunted billow, But where the glistening night-dews weep O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening...were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven I 11* THE CBOOKED FOOTPATH. AH, here it is ! the sliding rail That marks the old remembered spot, •... | |
| Lydia M. Millard - 1864 - 330 σελίδες
...no sign Save whitening lips and fading tresses, Till Death pours out his cordial wine Slow- dropped from Misery's crushing presses, If singing breath...melodies were poured. As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven !" JUST a month after the conversation in our last chapter, Mrs. Trap took up the morning paper ; as... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 σελίδες
...no sign, Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till Death pours out his cordial wine, Slow dropped from Misery's crushing presses : — If singing breath,...were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven. EMERSON'S tine lines, entitled Each and All, are now before us : — Little thinks, in the field, yon... | |
| E. L. T. Harrison, W. S. Godby - 1868 - 644 σελίδες
...heart's sad story, — Weep for the voiceless, who have known The cross without the crown of gloryl Not where Leucadian breezes sweep O'er Sappho's memory-haunted...melodies were poured, As sad as earth, as sweet as heavenl JL ETTER G. [CONCI.CDKD.] With this sudden change of «tune he ran to his wife, who sat, white... | |
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