 Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up On Nature's awful waste, To drink this last and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste — Go, tell the night that hides thy face, Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race, On Earth's sepulchral clod, The darkening universe...  Theodric, and other poems - Page 112by Thomas Campbell - 1824Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...sword can slay, no fires consume, no ocean drown his soul. Hence with an indomitable spirit he can The dark'ning universe defy To quench his Immortality, Or shake his trust in God. TV. Rectitude. " The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion." A guilty... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...breath, Who captive led captivity. Who robb'd the grave of Victory,— And took the sting from Death ! Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...quench his Immortality, Or shake his trust in God ! Sept. 1823. (loud. Mag. August.) POPULAR PEKJUD1CES ANB SUPERSTITIOUS PECULIAR TO THE ESTHONIANS.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory, — And took the sting from Death ! Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...last of Adam's race, On Earth's sepulchral clod, The dark'niti}; universe defy To quench his Immortality, Or shake his trust in God ! vOL. vi ll. No. xxxili.... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory,— And took the sting from Death ! t Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...night that hides thy face, Thou saw'st the last of Adam''s rare, On Earth's sepulehral clod, The dark'ning universe defy To quench his Immortality, Or... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory, — And look the sting from Death ! Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste — Go, lell the night that hides thy face, Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race, On Earth's sepulchral clod,... | |
 | Martin MacDermot - English literature - 1824 - 602 pages
...breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory, — And took the sting from Death Go sun, while mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...quench his Immortality, Or shake his trust in God ! THE DAUGHTER OF MEATH. WHETHER the story of Melachlin'sdaughterbe true or not, it is related in the History... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 510 pages
...breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of victory, — And took the sting from Death ! " Go, Sun, while mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...his Immortality, Or shake his trust in God !" The " Darkness " of Lord Byron is a vision of despair ; it is one of those pictures, which terrify even... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1826 - 488 pages
...to breath Who captive led captivity, Who robbed the grave of victory, And took the sting from Death. Go, Sun, while mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...his immortality, Or shake his trust in GOD !' The meanest Insect we can see, the minutest and most contemptible Weed we can tread upon, is really sufficient... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 600 pages
...Death ! Go, Son, while Mercy holds me up OD Nature's awful waste To drink this last and bitter cop Of grief that man shall taste — Go, tell the night...quench his Immortality, Or shake his trust in God!" The following is of a different mould aiij turn, but is not a discredit to the antbor of the foregoing.... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Who captive led captivity, Who robb'd the grave of Victory,— And took the sting from Death ! u 2 Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up On Nature's awful...quench his immortality, Or shake his trust in God !" PROFESSOR WILSON.* MAGDALENE'S HYMN. FROM " THE CITY OF THE PLAGUE." THE air of death breathes through... | |
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