 Stoop o'er the place of graves, and softly sway The sighing herbage by the gleaming stone, That they who near the churchyard willows stray, And listen in the deepening gloom, alone, May think of gentle souls that passed away, Like thy pure breath, into...  A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 529by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...gloom, alone, May think of gentle souls that passed away, Like thy pure breath, into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...gloom, alone, May think of gentle souls that passed away, Like thy pure breath, into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...gloom, alone, May think of gentle souls that pass'd away, Like thy pure breath, into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; thou shall kiss the child asleep, And dry... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...gloom alone, May think of gentle souls that's passed away Like the pure Breath into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again." BRYANT. Brown, a writer on urn burials, states that " the cemetral cells of ancient Christians and... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...the figure which represents the evening air as " God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth." In the same poem he compares " The gentle souls that...— " Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men," jlnd gone into the boundless heaven again." And what can be more suggestive of the power of the winds... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 340 pages
...gloom alone, May think of gentle souls that's passed away Like the pure breath into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again." BRYANT. Brown, a writer on urn burials, states that " the cemetral cells of ancient Christians and... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...figure which represents the evening air, as IS* • ' God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth." In the same poem he compares " The gentle souls that...are said to " Scoop the ocean to its briny springs" ? — He would make us feel the hoary age of the mossy and gigantic forest- trees, and not only alludes... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...gloom, alone, May think of gentle souls that passed away, Like thy pure breath, into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shall kiss the child asleep, And dry... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1852 - 498 pages
...the figure which represents the evening air, as " God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth." In the same poem he compares "The gentle souls that...are said to " Scoop the ocean to its briny springs" ? — He would make us feel the hoary age of the mossy and gigantic forest-trees, and not only alludes... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...gloom, alone, May think of gentle souls that pass'd away, Like thy pure breath, into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; thou shall kiss the child asleep, And dry... | |
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