 | Lyre - 1806 - 204 pagine
...asleep by the murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. THOU lingering Star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher's! in the day My MARY from my soul was torn.— O Mary '. dear departed Shade ! Where... | |
 | 1807 - 442 pagine
...and poured out the effusions of his anguished, lacerated heart, in deep and piercing tones.— 1 " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day, My Mary from my soul was torn. 2 " Oh Mary, dear, departed shade, Where... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pagine
...asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pagine
...cottage-rousing craw. But deep this truth impress'd my mind— Through all his works abroad, TO MARY IN HEAVEN. lingering star, with lessening ray, -- That lov'st to greet the early morn, .Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pagine
...areprepar'd fora rite so divine, When the feelings alone sacrifice to the shrine. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. BURNS. THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day Oh Mary ! dear departed shade*! Where is thy place of blissful rest... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pagine
...! I mount 1 I j O grave ! where !s thy victory ? O death ! where is thy sting ? TO MARY IN HEAVEN. Thou lingering star, with lessening ray. That lov'st to greet the early morn, .Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ' Where... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pagine
...Linkumdoddie and tinkler Madgie never had a name and local habitation except in song. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade ! Where is... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pagine
...sonnet ?) I only can think of the roses, And the smile that is under your bonnet. TO MARY IN HEAVEN.* THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn! Burns. • In the history of the heart's... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pagine
...they'll fill a pitas well as better; " or stand as well in the mouth of a M TO MARY IN HEAVEN! BURNS. Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. Oh Mary! dear departed shade! Where is... | |
 | Jonathan Lawrence - 1833 - 196 pagine
...they exchanged, are expressed in language to which verse could add no poetry. The stanzas beginning, Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, embody the essence of all the tenderness that brokenhearted love could feel, and the substance of all... | |
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THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou... 
