 When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart...  The Elements of Reading and Oratory - Page 183by Henry Mandeville - 1850 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 294 pages
...darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the ster n agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...dark musings, with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. 2. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour, come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice : — Yet a few days, and thee,... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - English poetry - 1844 - 274 pages
...darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart, Go forth unto the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters,... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - Christian ethics - 1844 - 572 pages
...The passage is from the works of the American poet Bryant-- and deserves to be universally known. -" When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heartGo forth under the open sky, and list To nature's teachings : while from all around — Earth... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...Contemplation of Death. Their sh&rpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts ' Of the last \ bitter I hour II come like a blight ' Over thy spirit, and sad images ' Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pdll, 5 And breaUdess darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1843 - 434 pages
...a blight Over thy spirit, and sad image* Of the stem agony, ;>n.! shroud, ajid pall, And breathlebs darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart — Go forth unto the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...come like a Might • Over thy spirit, and sad images ' Of the stern Agony, and shroud, and p&ll, 5 And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at Mart;— Go forth ' under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all ar6und— Edrth... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while, from all around— Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice — Yet... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart, — Go forth unto the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters,... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1845 - 264 pages
...darker musings with a mild And gentle sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is-aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a...thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart,— Go forth unto the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters,... | |
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