Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin — oh ! I could drink the cup If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom... Melanie and Other Poems - 184 ページNathaniel Parker Willis 著 - 1835 - 231 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 350 ページ
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token! "And now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With...dark sin! Oh, I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom!... | |
| James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 ページ
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! 8. " And now, farewell! "Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee !—... | |
| James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881 - 232 ページ
...its last deep token ! 1 Sackcloth, a coarse covering worn by the Jews during n period of mourning. It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To...sin ! ' — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom... | |
| Ferguson - 1881 - 386 ページ
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To...! 'Tis hard to give thee up ; With death so like a slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness... | |
| Child-life - 1881 - 112 ページ
...flung : But thou no more with thy sweet voice shalt speak, Till we meet in the kingdom of the meek. " And now farewell. 'Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ; Yet I'm resigned, and now can drink the cup, For paradise from earth below hath won thee. Our God... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1882 - 392 ページ
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token \ It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To...sin ! — Oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have call'd thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy Absalom... | |
| Gleanings - 1882 - 548 ページ
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To...! Tis hard to give thee up ; With death so like a slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness... | |
| P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 ページ
...broken, 43 How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn * for thine ear to drink its last deep token ! It were * so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom,*...! " And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, Co With death so like a gentle slumber on thee !— And thy dark sin ! * — oh ! I could drink the... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 ページ
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! 8. "And now, farewell ! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee !... | |
| Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 ページ
...broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear, to drink its last, deep token! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To...dark sin! oh! I could drink the cup, If, from this woe, its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My erring Absalom... | |
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