TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption, lay thine hand ! — let me decay, Like the expiring lamp, unseen, away. And softly go to slumber with the dead. Eclectic Medical Gleaner - Side 761912Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Henry Kirke White - 1807 - 320 sider
...the just, — Thou gavest the bitter cup; J bow to thy behest, and drink it up, 109 TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...oft foretell the day Of death, to those good men who fell thy prey, O let the aerial music round my bed, Pissolving sad in dying symphony, Whisper the solemn... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 sider
...grave. God of the just ! thou gav'st the bitter cup, I bow to thy behest and drink it up." » SONNET. " Gently, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...what holy men have said, That strains angelic oft foretel the day Of death, to those good men who fall thy prey, O let the aerial music, round my bed,... | |
| Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1808 - 358 sider
...God of the just,:—Thou gavest the bitter cup; I bow to thy behest and drink it up. TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...away, And softly go to slumber with the dead. And if'tis'true what holy men have said, That strains angelic oft foretell the day Of death, to those good... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 sider
...under which he died, cannot be read without the most poignant regret and admiration. To Consumption. Gently, most gently, on thy victim's head. Consumption,...And softly go to slumber with the dead. And if 'tis truu what holy men have said, That strains angelic oft foretell the day Of death, to those good men... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1810 - 532 sider
...under which he died, cannot be read without the most poignant regret and admiration. To Consumption. Gently, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...softly go to slumber with the dead. And if 'tis true wha^ holy men have said, That strains angelic oft foretell the day Of death, to those good men who... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 sider
...just, — Thou gavest the bitter cup; I bow to thy behest, and drink it iip. 112 TO CONSUMPTION. / GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...expiring lamp, unseen, away, And softly go to slumber wilh the dead. And if 'tis true what holy men have said, That strains angelic oft foretell the day... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1813 - 730 sider
...of the just, — Thou gavest the bitter cup; 1 bow to thy behest, and drink it up. TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...day Of death, to those good men who fall thy prey, 0 let the aerial music round my bed, Dissolving sad in dying symphony, Whisper the solemn warning in... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1827 - 486 sider
...of the just — Thou gav'st the bitter cup ; I bow to thy behest, and drink it up. TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...what holy men have said, That strains angelic oft foretel the day Of death, to those good men who fall thy prey, O let the aerial music round my bed,... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1827 - 242 sider
...a lorn spectre on yon well-known grave, And mix its meanings with the desert wave. TO CONSUMPTION. Gently, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...unseen, away, And softly go to slumber with the dead. O .et the aerial music round my bed, Dissolving sad in dying symphony, Whisper the solemn warning in... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1829 - 426 sider
...of the just — Thou gavest the bitter cup ; I bow to thy behest, and drink it up. TO CONSUMPTION. GENTLY, most gently, on thy victim's head, Consumption,...day Of death, to those good men who fall thy prey, 0 let the aerial music round my bed, Dissolving sad in dying symphony, Whisper the solemn warning in... | |
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