 | Select poetry - English poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...Lord, with strength, and life, and light, Assist and guide my upward night, And bid the world depart. FORGIVE, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns...Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined to groveling scenes of night, No more a... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 830 pages
...following beautiful lines were Mini', for the first time, in Hingwood, by the choir of the Meeting : " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns...like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thec here, And stay'd thy progress to the realms of bliss. No more confiu'd to grovelling scenes of... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 634 pages
...first time, in Rmgwood, by the choir of the Meeting : " Korgive, blest shade, the tributary tro.-, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would hare kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the т1ш* of bliss. No more confiu'd to grovelling... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 438 pages
...Brading in the Isle of Wight. EPITAPH. Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy eiil from a world like this: Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here , And slny'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd to grov'ling scenes of nipht, No more a... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...That light of life to all who live, Himself shall lose the way. MONTGOMERY. EPITAPH ON A BELIEVER. FORGIVE, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns...Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And staid thy progress to the realms of bliss. No more confin'd to grov'lling scenes of earth, No more... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1828 - 198 pages
...Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mournsthy exit from a worldlike this; Forgive the wisn that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss. 2 No more confin'd to grov'ling scenes of night, No mure a tenant pent in mortal clay ; Now should... | |
 | George Brannon - 1831 - 260 pages
...well-written; for example; On Mrs. ANN BERRY. Forgive, blest shade ! the tributary tear That mourns thy absence from a world like this : Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And staid thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...now sai nts on high, whom we lament below. ' Forgive, ye blest, the tributary tear ' That mourns your exit from a world like this ; ' Forgive the wish that would have kept you here, And stay'd your progress to the seats or bliss. ' No more confin'd to darksome realms of... | |
 | Music - 1834 - 358 pages
...in a much more elevated situation than a mere performer can ever hope to attain. GLEE.—CALLCOTT. Forgive, blest shade! the tributary tear"' That mourns...this; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight. And stay'd thy... | |
 | Collectanea topographica et genealogica - 1836 - 448 pages
...greatly bewailed by her hushand and children, on the 10th day of August 1823, in her 54th year. Accept, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns thy exit...have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seat of bliss. Tho' thou art free from mortal care, Thy spirit fled to realms above ; Still shalt thou... | |
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Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant... 
