 ... bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in...  Gertrude of Wyoming: And Other Poems - Page 177by Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1803 - 162 pages
...times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. " Stay—stay with us!—rest!—thou art weary and worn!' (And fain was their war-broken...morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away! STANZAS TO PAINTING. 0 THOU, by whose expressive art Her perfect image nature sees In union with the... | |
 | France - 1904 - 518 pages
...in the fulness of heart! Stay ! stay with us ! rest ! thoii art weary and worn ; Arid fain was the war-broken soldier to stay ; But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice iu my dreaming ear melted away, Morning Ucrald. > SONG. ARISE Brother Britons, in valour arise, The... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...us !— rest ! — thou art weary and worn!* |i (And fain was their war broken soldier to stay), I i But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. VAN-SHOO-YUEN, OR PARADTSE OF TEN THOUSAND. The Chinese Emptror'i Part. " The groves ofEden, vanish'd... | |
 | Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...in the fulness of heart. Stay ! stay w.ith us ! thou art weary and worn, And fain was the war broken soldier to stay ; But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, .And ihe voice in my dreaming ear melted away. EPIGRA M. CITIES Nell to Tom, 'mid matrimonial strife, •... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 272 pages
...thousand times, o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us — rest, thou art weary and worn : — And fain was their war-broken...in my dreaming ear melted away. THE TURKISH LADY. 1 WAS the hour when rites unholy Call'd each Paynim voice to pray'r, And the star that faded slowly... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. — Slay, stay with us, — rest, thou art weary and worn;— And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay ; STANZAS, Written near a tree over the grave of an Officer. ROBINSON. Ah !• pensive trav'ler, if... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pages
...my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And fain was the war-broken soldier to stay; But sorrow return'd with...morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. C TAK YOUR AULD CLOAK ABOUT YE. IN winter when the rain rain'd cauld, And frost and snaw on ilka hill,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us — rest, thou art weary and worn ; And fain was their war-broken...sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice hi my dreaming ear melted away. Campbell. ±,—The Female Exile. YE hills of my country, soft fading... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us — rest, thon art weary and worn, ' And fain was their war-broken...And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. THE CYPRESS WREATH. Walter Scot/. O LADY twine no wreath for me, Or twine it of the Cypress Tree ; Too... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 270 pages
...thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us — rest, thou art weary and worn : — And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay ; But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. ADVERTISEMENT. The... | |
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