 Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean...  The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck - Seite 11von Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1858 - 238 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - 1825 - 502 Seiten
...earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine — And thou art terrible : the...pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agdfty, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 Seiten
...earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear,...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. 5 But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 Seiten
...Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath;— With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knel], the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. 5 But to the hero,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 Seiten
...storm; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, Andthou art terrible: the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 9 And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the frail, the heir, * And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 Seiten
...storrn ; — • Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet'song, and dance, and wifle, And thou art terrible : the -tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,And all we know, or dream, Oc fear '• Of agony, are thine. • » .'•. 5 But to the h0ro,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; !ome when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible — the...all we know, or dream, or fear, Of agony, are thine. 3ut to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 Seiten
...The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;— Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible: the tear,...all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. 5 But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's... | |
 | 1832 - 324 Seiten
...terrors ;' come as he will, we may well say to him, in the words of our gifted countryman, Halleck, — ' Thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell,...all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.' There is something inconceivably awful in standing on the shore of time, and endeavouring in vain to... | |
 | 1832 - 320 Seiten
...terrors;' come as he will, we may well say to him, in the words of our gifted countryman, Halleck, — ' Thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the hier, And all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.' There is something inconceivably awful... | |
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