 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 páginas
...mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss : Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ! I heard the bell tolled... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 páginas
...mother ! when I learn'd that thou want dead, Say, wast then conscious of the t< - ar« I shed ? Hover d thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thce slow away, And, turning... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 páginas
...afterwards, on the receipt of her portrait from a relation in Norfolk : — " My mother 1 when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 páginas
...Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. ' My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ' Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's Journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 páginas
...Shall steep me in Elysian reverie', A momentary dream', that thou art she'. My Mother'! when I learned that thou wast dead', Say', wast thou conscious of the tears I shed'? Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son', Wretch even then', life's journey just begun'? Perhaps... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 páginas
...wave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say,...journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 448 páginas
...beautiful and much admired lines on his mother's picture, there is the following pathetic remark : My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say,...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun 1 In dwelling on these predisposing causes, the Editor thinks it right to state, in the most unequivocal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 páginas
...beautiful and much admired lines on his mother's picture, there is the following pathetic remark : My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say,...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? In dwelling on these predisposing causes, the Editor thinks it right to state, in the most unequivocal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 páginas
...calamity ; while we know that events prolonged the impression of this regret to more considerate years. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? I heard the bells toll'd on thy burial day ; I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away ; And, turning... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 páginas
...made on his youthful imagination bv the remembrance of her virtues. We extract the following passage. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed 1 more of the Donne than of the Cowper, and though I love all of both names, and have a thousand reasons... | |
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Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile!... 
