 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 sider
...suany resting-place, Nor lirought 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 looked and prayed like thee — but now1' — He hung his head,^-each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 sider
...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...— he wept! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whoso benign redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guileless joy that guilt can know.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one braneh of grace ! " There was a time," he said, in mild Heart-humbled tones, " thou blessed child ! When young,...nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From Iioyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt... | |
 | Charles Francis Trower - 1852 - 486 sider
...antipathies, and prejudice melt away before the winning warmth of Christian courtesy! CHAPTER XVIII. " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and...instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! " MOORE. J HE thief, who was but a lad in years, though old in crime, expiated his audacity at Parkhurst,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 790 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace. " There was a time," he said, iu mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! " When,...hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — ho wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt tho first,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 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...which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came BEAUTIFUL POI.TBr. FLOWEBS. By Mrs. HEMANS. " O FATHER, Lord ! The All-beneficent ! I bless thy name,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 sider
...well beguiled E'en haughty Eblis of a sigh "For glories lost and peace gone by ! 570 MOORE. [VICTORIA, He hung his head— each nobler aim And hope and feeling,...From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er hhn, and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign redeeming flow... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace? " There teas 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 " lie hung his head; each nobler aim, And hope, and feeling,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 sider
...sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There teas 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,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1856 - 312 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...look'd and pray'd like thee — but now—" He hung Ms head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant... | |
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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 ! 
