| Henry Kirke White - 1844 - 526 Seiten
...lies'! Mute, mute is all O'er beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day...fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid. Then since the world is vain, And cares and sorrows eat ? Why fly from ill With anxious skill, When... | |
| William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 Seiten
...lies ? Mute, mute is all, O'er beauty's fall, Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day;...And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now its gone away. Thus does the shade In memory fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid.... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...him in the dust. 5. Oh ! what is Beauty's power ? It flourishes and dies ; Will the cold earth its silence break, To tell how soft, how smooth a cheek...'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away. Thus does Die shade In memory fade, When in forsaken tomb, the form beloved is laid. 7. Then since this world... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...is all, O'er beauty's fall, Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. The most belov'd on earth Not long survives to-day ; So music past...shade In memory fade, When in forsaken tomb the form belov'd is laid. Then, since this world is vain, And volatile and fleet, Why should I lay up earthly... | |
| Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 Seiten
...praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall ! The most beloved on earth Not long survives to day ; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas...away. Thus does the shade In memory fade, When in the dreary tomb the form beloved is laid. .THE DANGERS OF PROSPERITY. 49 Then since the world is vain,... | |
| 1848
...DEATH OF A CHILD. " The most betoved on earth Not tong survives to-day ; So musit past is obsotete ; And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet; But now 'tis gone away." HERRY KIRRE WHITE. GONE to the land of bliss ; — For that melodious strain Which oft my weary spirit... | |
| John Dowling - 1847 - 322 Seiten
...death, like that of the lovely Harriet, so soon afforded a touching illustration of the sentiment. " The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day...• In memory fade, When in forsaken tomb the form belov'd is laid." Oh, it is mournful to cover up, in the damp cold ground, the cherished forms of the... | |
| Ann Jane - 1855 - 1198 Seiten
...exclaim — " The most beloved on e:ath Not long survives to-day : -So music past is obsolete ; And jet 'twas sweet — 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis...fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid '" 186 THEY WENT AND TOID JESTS. How sadly and mournfully did the truth fall upon ou hearts as we gazed... | |
| 1850 - 300 Seiten
...lies ? Mute, mute is all O'er Beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day...And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 't is gone away. Thus does the shade In memory fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid.... | |
| 1850 - 340 Seiten
...lies ? Mute, mute is all O'er Beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day ; So music past is obsolete, And yet 't was sweet, 't was passing sweet, But now 't is gone away. Thus does the shade In memory fade, When... | |
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