 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 590 pages
...His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won : Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to...flowers at set of sun. Come to the bridal chamber. Death ! Cooie to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her firstborn's breath ; Come when the... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 566 pages
...His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field wag won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun." — HatteA THK sun found the Lenape, on the succeed!* g clay, a nation of mourners. The sounds of the... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...His few surviving comrades saw His smile, when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to...sun. Come to the bridal chamber, death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; — Come when the blessed seals... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...few surviving comrades saw His smile, when rung their proud hurra, And the red field was won: They saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun. 5. Come to the bridal-chamber, Death ; Come to the mother, when she feels For the first time, her first-born's... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...His few surviving comrades saw His smile, when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly, as to...chamber, Death ! Come to the mother's when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...few surviving comrades saw His smile, when rang their proud " hurrah," And the red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly, as to...sun. Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals,... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - 1915 - 692 pages
...interpreted as conditional: — Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother, when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly... | |
 | John Rutledge Scott - 1915 - 694 pages
...interpreted as conditional: — Come to the bridal-chamber, Death ! Come to the mother, when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly... | |
 | Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 540 pages
...Close as a flea in a blanket. — " YEA AND NAY ALMANACK, " 1680. Closed. Closed as a shrine. — ANON. Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun. — FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. Closed his eyes, like a priest who at evening service closes the gold tabernacle... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1916 - 492 pages
...face to face When I have crossed the bar." When his life-work was ended, his eyelids closed in death, "calmly as to a night's repose, like flowers at set of sun." We miss the touch of the "vanished hand" and the sound of the "voice that is still." But we feel sure... | |
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Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun. 
