 Pure as the snow-flake ere it falls and takes the stain of earth, With not a taint of mortal life except thy mortal birth, — God bade thee early taste the spring for which so many thirst, And bliss — eternal bliss — is thine, my Fairest and my First...  Lyrics of the Heart: with Other Poems - Pagina 72di Alaric Alexander Watts - 1853 - 331 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1825 - 806 pagine
...soothing radiance dart, And my sighs are hush'd, my tears are dried, when I turn to what thou art ! Fare as the snow-flake ere it falls and takes the stain...early taste the spring for which so many thirst, And blisa — eternal bliss — is thine, my Fairest and my First ! Perhaps the best poem in the vo- language... | |
 | 1825 - 604 pagine
...my Fairest and my First ! When I think of what thou might'st have been, my heart is like to burst ; But gleams of gladness through my gloom their soothing...eternal bliss — is thine, my Fairest and my First !' pp. 74—78. The lines by the Rev. WL Bowles at p. 83, please us better than any thing we have seen... | |
 | 1825 - 624 pagine
...my Fairest and my First ! When I think of what thou might'st have been, my heart is like to burst ; But gleams of gladness through my gloom their soothing...eternal bliss — is thine, my Fairest and my First !' pp. 74—78. The lines by the Rev. WL Bowles at p. 83, please us better than any thing we have seen... | |
 | 1825 - 848 pagine
...burst ; But gleams of gladness through my gloom their soothing radiance dart, And my sighs are hush'd, my tears are dried, when I turn to what thou art !...eternal bliss — is thine, my Fairest and my First 1 Perhaps the best poem in the vo- language almost Wordsworthian.— lume is by Allan C'unmngliaine.... | |
 | 1825 - 386 pagine
...bitter humiliations of poor humanity. Then what a blessed thing is the quiet death of the sweet in/ant ! Pure as the snow-flake ere it falls, And takes the...of earth, With not a taint of mortal life, Except its mortal birth. The sinless soul of the cherub child, that dies on its mother's breast, wings its... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pagine
...sighs arc hushed, and my tears are dried, when I turn to what thou art ! v il Pure as the snow flake ere it falls and takes the stain of earth, With not a taint of mortal life except tby mortal hirth,— God bade thee early taste the spring for which so many thirst, And bliss— eternal... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1829 - 424 pagine
...my fairest and my first! When I think of what thou might'st have been, my heart is like to burst ; But gleams of gladness through my gloom their soothing...eternal bliss — is thine, my fairest and my first ! THINK OF HIE. THINK of me, and I'll tell thee when The moment of that thought shall be ; When yon... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1829 - 476 pagine
...my fairest and my first ! When I think of what thou might'st have been, my heart is like to burst ; But gleams of gladness through my gloom their soothing...so many thirst. And bliss — eternal bliss — is tlu'ne, my fairest and my first ! THINK OF ME. THINK of me, and I'll tell thee when The moment of that... | |
 | 1833 - 388 pagine
...weakened with a tear '. And, then, what a blessed thing is the quiet death of the sweet infant ! — " Pure as the snow-flake ere it falls, and takes the...of earth, With not a taint of mortal life, except its mortal birth !" The sinless soul of the cherub child, that dies on its mother's breast, wings its... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pagine
...burst ; But gleams of gladness through my gloom their soothing radiance dart, And my sighs are hush'd, my tears are dried, when I turn to what thou art !...eternal bliss — is thine, my fairest and my first ! LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. MOORE. OH, the days are gone, when beauty bright, My heart's chain wove ; When... | |
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