 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pagine
...beauty's dawn so bright, So touching as that form's decay, Which, like the altar's trembling light, OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. OFT, in the stilly night...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pagine
...the mind's eye, with more vividness than the blaze of noon can now offer to the bodily sight:— " Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Mem'ry brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pagine
...ring on, While other bards shall walk these dells, And sing your praise, sweet evening bells ! OPT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. OFT, in the stilly night, Ere...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 pagine
...to me, When smoothly go our gondolets O'er the moonlight sea. OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. (SCOTCH Am.) OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dinim'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain hath... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pagine
...when daylight sets, Sweet ! then come to me, When smoothly go our sondoleu O'er the moonlight sea. OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. OFT, in the stilly night,...bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days nrourrj me ; The smiles, the tear«, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagine
...fade, — The brightest still the fleetest ; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest ! OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. OFT, in the stilly night,...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 pagine
...tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear.— Sir W. Scott, Oft In the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brmgs the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 272 pagine
...tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'uer held his breath to hear.— Sir W. Scott. Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Mem'iry brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words... | |
 | 1847 - 906 pagine
...impart ; The cup thus devoted to woman, Yields the only true balm of the heart. Then the toast, &c. OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT OFT in the stilly night, Ere...Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears of childhood's years, The words of love then spoken, The eyed that shone, now dimmed and gone, The cheerful... | |
 | Mrs. Murray Gartshore - 1847 - 408 pagine
...songs. Two voices chimed well together in that lovely air, which popularity has never made vulgar, — " Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me." She thought of the days they had spent together at Arrandale — of Lady Arrandale —... | |
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Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now... 
