 THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my...  The Poetical Melange - Page 221828Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...stones. COWPER, ON THE RECEIPT OF HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those...sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not. my child, chase all thy fears... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...OUT OF NORFOLK, TUB GIFT OF MY COUSIN ANN BODHAM. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those...sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...OUT OP NORFOLK ; The Gift of my Cousin, Ann Bodham. O THAT those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those...sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me : Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, * Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...OUT Or NORFOLK, THE ClPT OF MY COUSIN ANN BODHAM. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine— thy own sweet smile I seej The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, •... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...PORTRAIT. [ABRIDGED.] Oh! that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I saw thee last; Those lips are thine — thy own sweet...say, " Grieve not my child ! chase all thy fears away !" My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...reigns'i SECTION XVII. On receiving his Mother's Picture. — COWPEH. 0 TEAT those lips had language'! Life has passed' With me but roughly since I heard*...thine' — thy own sweet smile I see', The same', that oil in childhood solaced me': Voice only fails', else', how distinct they say', "Grieve not', myb child',... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...had language ! Life has pasa'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thme — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinet they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away !" The meek intelligence of those... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...dreams as well as the man of fancy. JM Good. A MOTHER'S PORTRAIT. O ! THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smiles I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine—thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft, in childhood, solaced me ; ' Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away !' Voice only fails, else how distinct they say,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...1731-1800. ON THE RECEIPT OP MY MOTHER'S PICTURE. OH that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those...fears away!" The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Bless'd be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it)... | |
| |
