 Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of men. Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in...  Time's Telescope - Page cx1826Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...oblivion's enrtain fall Upon the stage of men, Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken tlesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in...disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, beneath the scythe. Even I am weaiy in yon skies To watch thy fading tire ; Test of all sumless agonies,... | |
 | EMMA MOODY - 1876 - 368 pages
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men ; Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in discuses shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. Even I am... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous my , ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 618 pages
...piteous pageants bring not baek, Nor waken flesh, upon the raek Of pain, anew, to writhe, — Stretehed in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the seythe! Even I am weary, in yon skies To wateh thy fading lire; Test of all simdes agonies, Behold... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Children's Literature, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again: Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the...battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. Even I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sunless agonies, Behold not me... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 pages
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again : Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the...battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. Even I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sunless agonies, Behold not me... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the...battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. " E'en I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 pages
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again! Its piteous pageants bring not back, Nor waken flesh, upon the...battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe ! C. Even I am weary, in yon skies To watch thy fading fire; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 234 pages
...Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. Even I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire; Test of all sunless agonies, Behold not me expire. My lips that speak thy dirge of death — Their rounded gasp and gurgling breath To see thou shalt... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. In piteous pageants bring not back, « Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
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