 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1832 - 694 sider
...ihoti, • I looli'd and pray'd like thee — lint new« — He hung his head — euch nobler »im Anil hope and feeling, which had slept . . From boyhood's...that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wrpt. Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! In whose benign , redeeming flow Is felt the first, the:... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There -was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When young and haply pure as thou, He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that... | |
 | Walter Cooper Dendy - 1833 - 148 sider
...of a child at prayer)- from the lips of one stained with blood and crime : — ' There was a time, thou blessed child ! When young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee.' But these are the sensations of comparative indifference, when contrasted with the delicious feelings of... | |
 | 1838 - 320 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace! " There was a time," he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child, When young...now"— He hung his head, — each nobler aim, And nope, and feeling, which had slept, From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept... | |
 | 1841
...mild, Heart-humbled tones, 'thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee ; but now ' — He hung his head : each...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept." The peri flies swift to catch the falling tears, bears them to the gates of Paradise, whose portals... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1841
...entered his soul, and softened his hard and cruel heart : " ' There was a time,' he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, 'thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee ; but now ' — He hung his head : each nobler aim And hope and feeling,... | |
 | 1842 - 490 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace : " There mas a time," he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! When,...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept! From l.ullii Rookh, THE DEATH OF AZIM. Time fleeted — years on years had pass'd away, And few of... | |
 | 1842 - 490 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace : " There was a time," he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! When,...young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thce — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! "There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ; " When...— " He hung his head- — each nobler aim And hope anil feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept! he... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 300 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace! "There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child; " When...hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept I he wept Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the... | |
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And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace ! 
