 | Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 392 pagine
...can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile and whisper this, — ' / am not the thing you kiss ; Cease your tears, and let it lie : It was mine, it is not I.' Sweet friends ! What the women lave For its last bed of the grave, Is a tent which I am quitting, Is a garment... | |
 | Henry Fitz Randolph - 1887 - 392 pagine
...was mine, it is not I.' Sweet friends ! What the women lave For its last bed of the grave, Is a tent which I am quitting, Is a garment no more fitting, Is a cage from which, at last, Like a hawk my soul hath passed. Love the inmate, not the room, — The wearer, not the garb, — the plume... | |
 | 1888 - 328 pagine
...Abdallah's dead ! " Weeping at the feet and head, I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile and whisper this — " I...let it lie ; It was mine, it is not ' I." " Sweet friends ! what the women lave For its last bed, called the grave, Is a hut which I am quitting, Is... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1916 - 638 pagine
..."Ajbdallah's dead," Weeping at the feet and head, I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this "I am not the thing you kies; "Cease your tears, and let it lie; "It was mine, it is not I." Sweet friends, what the women... | |
 | 1883 - 234 pagine
...can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile, and whisper this — " /am not the thing you kiss : Cease your tears and let it lie ; It was mine, it is not 'I.' " Sweet friends ! what the women lave For its last bed of the grave Is a hut which I am quitting, Is a garment... | |
 | 1889 - 118 pagine
...head. I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this — "/am not the thing you kiss; Cease your tears and let it lie ; It was mine, it is not I." Sweet friends ! What the women lave For its last bed of the grave, Is but a hut which I am quitting, Is a... | |
 | 1890 - 514 pagine
...head. I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile and whisper this, "/am not the thing you kiss; Cease your tears, and...let it lie; It was mine — It is not ' I.' " Sweet friends, what the women lave, For its last bed of the grave, Is but a hut which I am quitting, Is a... | |
 | 1890 - 920 pagine
...the words of the poet — " What the women lave For the last sleep of the grave, • Is a tent that I am quitting ; Is a garment no more fitting ; Is a cage, from which at last Like a bird my soul hath passed." The sentiment, however, did not begin nor does it end with us. So far back as we find... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pagine
...I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile and whisper this : 1 am not the thing you kiss. Cease your tears, and let it lie ; It was mine — it is not I. Sweet friends ! what the women lave For its last bed of the grave, Is a hut which I am quitting, Is a garment... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 pagine
...can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers ; Yet I smile, and whisper this — " /am not the thing you kiss : Cease your tears and let it lie ; It was mine, it is not 'I.' " Sweet friends ! what the women lave For its last bed of the grave Is a hut which I am quitting, Is a garment... | |
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Weeping at the feet and head, I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this, — "I am not the thing you kiss; Cease your tears, and let it lie; It was mine, it is not I. 
