 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
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...back, 45 Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, of her administration, and the * an uniform judgment with re 50 To watch thy fading fire; Test of all sumless agonies, Ev'n I am weary in yon skies To see thou... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 494 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 sumless agonies, Behold not me... | |
 | John Millard - Elocution - 1889 - 248 pages
...anew to writhe ; Stretch'd in disease's shapw abhorr'd Or mown in ba'tle by the sword, ' Even I an: weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me expire. My lips that speak thy dirge of death— Their rounded gasp... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 460 pages
...a pang Entailed on human hearts. Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of men, 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 tire ; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1890 - 458 pages
...thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again : Its piteous (wgeants bring not back, Nor waken tiesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretched in...battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe. Even I am weaiy in yon skies To watch thy fading tire; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me expire.... | |
 | Walter Jenkinson Kaye - English poetry - 1891 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 384 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 ; Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd, Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 pages
...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. ' E'en I am weary in yon skies To watch thy fading fire ; Test of all sumless agonies, Behold not me... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 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 sumless agonies, Behold not me... | |
 | Emory Miller - Christianity - 1892 - 358 pages
...thought as a sublimation quite exalting and glorious, — quite other than death as we know it, — " Stretched in disease's shapes abhorred, Or mown in battle by the sword." Such development, it is probable, may sometime obtain in the latest generations of men, when " they... | |
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