The Early Dead; Or, Transplanted Flowers: A Collection of Thoughts, Poetrical and Scriptual, on the Death of ChildrenHenry J. Howland, 1857 - 204 pages |
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... mournfully along Upon the springing grass ! Sighs for the loved and young , And early dead , whose gushing voice In silvery cadence on an infant tongue , Would make my heart rejoice . O ! troubled heart , be still ! And tearful eye ...
... mournfully along Upon the springing grass ! Sighs for the loved and young , And early dead , whose gushing voice In silvery cadence on an infant tongue , Would make my heart rejoice . O ! troubled heart , be still ! And tearful eye ...
Page 38
... mournful memories of the past , ye wear our lives away , Ye haunt us in our dreams by night , and through each weary day ; The home which late , like Eden's bower , in blooming beauty smiled , Ye make a barren wilderness , a desert ...
... mournful memories of the past , ye wear our lives away , Ye haunt us in our dreams by night , and through each weary day ; The home which late , like Eden's bower , in blooming beauty smiled , Ye make a barren wilderness , a desert ...
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... Mournfully pealing ! What does its pealing tell , On the ear stealing ? Seem they not thus to say , Loved ones have passed away ? Ashes with ashes lay ? List to its pealing . Earth is all vanity , False as ' t is fleeting ; Grief is in ...
... Mournfully pealing ! What does its pealing tell , On the ear stealing ? Seem they not thus to say , Loved ones have passed away ? Ashes with ashes lay ? List to its pealing . Earth is all vanity , False as ' t is fleeting ; Grief is in ...
Page 63
... mournful sadness trace The room where Willie died . " T was midnight's hushed and holy hour- We kneeled around that little bed In terror , that Death's cloud should lower Around our precious darling's head- When , from its sombre night ...
... mournful sadness trace The room where Willie died . " T was midnight's hushed and holy hour- We kneeled around that little bed In terror , that Death's cloud should lower Around our precious darling's head- When , from its sombre night ...
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... mournful , very mournful , For my soul doth ever crave , For the falling of the shadows , From that little woodland grave . For the memory of the loved one From my soul will never part ; And those shadows in the valley , Dim the ...
... mournful , very mournful , For my soul doth ever crave , For the falling of the shadows , From that little woodland grave . For the memory of the loved one From my soul will never part ; And those shadows in the valley , Dim the ...
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