 VITAL spark of heavenly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life! Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit,...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 219by Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1906 - 122 pages
...shall be thine. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) The Dying Christian to his Soul VITAL spark of heav'nly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame: Trembling,...ling'ring, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark ! they whisper: angels say,... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1906 - 880 pages
...parent mourn, From friends and homo, alas! untimely torn. TflK DYING ClIKlriTlAN.— ALEXANDER POPE. Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, Oh ! the pain, the bliss of dying. Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let... | |
 | 1861 - 712 pages
...BOOKS. usual, singing in the morning that hymn which beautifully describes the dying Christian: — " Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame, Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me... | |
 | George Tabor Thompson - Hymns, English - 1907 - 76 pages
...Cheer thy heart by oft repeating, Very soon, very soon. G. Tabor Thompson. 39 Exchanging Worlds. 1 Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame; Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1909 - 456 pages
...combine to say, " How blest the righteous when he dies! " Mrs. Anna L. Barbauld, 1743 15 ( RESIGNATION ) Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 616 pages
...abibis in loca, Pallidula, Hgida, nudula? Nee, nt soles, dabis joca. ADRIANI MOEIEMTIS, Atl ANIMAH SCAM VITAL spark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me... | |
 | W. T. Andrews - Methodists - 1912 - 374 pages
...friends in the language of that grand old hymn by Alexander Pope." And he repeated it, as follows: "Vital spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 362 pages
...Hadrian's "Animula vagula, blandula " once more, already better done by Prior: Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame. Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, O the pain and bliss of dying! Surely only the sanction of a great name and other less questionable achievement... | |
 | Gordon Crosse - Religious poetry, English - 1924 - 288 pages
...ever near Him, See His face and sing His praise ! Isaac Watts. 133 THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL VITAL spark of heavenly flame, Quit, O quit this mortal frame : Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying. Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me... | |
 | Thomas Walsh - Catholic literature - 1927 - 582 pages
...sheep." From the Spanish by Thomas Walsh. THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Vital spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me... | |
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