 TO MARY IN HEAVEN 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. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly...  Greenock and Its Early Social Environment - Seite 49von William Auld - 1907 - 85 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Lyre - 1806 - 204 Seiten
...my lays, My Mary's asleep by the murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. THOU lingering Star, with lessening...ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher's! in the day My MARY from my soul was torn.— O Mary '. dear departed Shade ! Where is thy... | |
 | 1807 - 442 Seiten
...and poured out the effusions of his anguished, lacerated heart, in deep and piercing tones.— 1 " 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. 2 " Oh Mary, dear, departed shade, Where is thy... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 Seiten
...my lays ; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. 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. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...cottage-rousing craw. But deep this truth impress'd my mind— Through all his works abroad, TO MARY IN HEAVEN. 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. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 Seiten
...areprepar'd fora rite so divine, When the feelings alone sacrifice to the shrine. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. BURNS. THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day Oh Mary ! dear departed shade*! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 Seiten
...Lend, lend your wings ! I mount 1 I j O grave ! where !s thy victory ? O death ! where is thy sting ? TO MARY IN HEAVEN. 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. O Mary ! dear departed shade ' Where is thy place... | |
 | 1826 - 434 Seiten
...it pray what is a sonnet ?) I only can think of the roses, And the smile that is under your bonnet. TO MARY IN HEAVEN.* 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! Burns. • In the history of the heart's test affections,... | |
 | Jonathan Lawrence - 1833 - 196 Seiten
...they exchanged, are expressed in language to which verse could add no poetry. The stanzas beginning, Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, embody the essence of all the tenderness that brokenhearted love could feel, and the substance of all... | |
 | 1841 - 986 Seiten
...facility of one copying from memory, the grandly melancholy hymn which follows : "Thou ling'ringstar, 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... | |
 | 1850 - 602 Seiten
...they now stand, with all the ease of 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... | |
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