Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou... A Vindication: Burns, Excise Officer and Poet - Page 28by John Sinton - 1897 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Wilson, Robert Chambers - Engraving - 1840 - 364 pages
...memory, the sublime ада pathetic verses : — " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn. Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. О Мary ! dear departed shade ! Where Is thy blissful place of rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
| Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...published in the Dumfriet Journal. Co iHari) in fetabtn. Tune— Death of Captai» Cook. THOU lingVing weakness has come short, Or frailtv slept ushePst in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. О Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place... | |
| Robert Burns - 1841 - 354 pages
...they now stand, with all the ease of one copying from memory, the sublime and pathetic verses : — ' Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st...usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary 1 dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
| Child rearing - 1843 - 322 pages
...sublimity and pathos have a responding charm in the hearts of Scotsmen. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the...usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...relation to External Objects," by George Combe, Esq. of Edinburgh. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. 1. Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the...usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O, Mary ! dear, departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...sensibility— this heart-rending address ' To Mary in Heaven.' Tune.— Miss Forba's Farewell to Banff. THOU ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st...usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest 1 Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...his address To Mary in Heaven." — vol. vp 238. The poem itself is as follows : — " Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the...usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn! " O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...one copying from memory, the sublime and pathetic verses :"* " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou...usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. Oh, Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...pathetic verses. — Lockfiarl's Life of Burns. TO MAKY IN UK A YEN. BY HOBEHT BUHNS. THOU lingering star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...panting bosom and a grateful eye, is no man, but a monster. , 7t2O> TO MAKY IN HEAVElt. Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the...usher'st in the day, My Mary, from my soul was torn. O. Mary: dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest 1 Seesl thou thy lover, lowly laid?... | |
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