Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but... MacMillan's Magazine - Page 81edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 434 pages
...without thought or feeling be ? 0 say what art thou, when no more thou 'rt thee ? «• Life ! we 've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ;... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 pages
...(as she did every night) Mrs. Barbauld's solemn-sweet stanza, composed when she too was very old — Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...weather ; "Tis hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time,... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1840 - 276 pages
...been long together, 'T is hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not, Good night ! but, in some brighter clime, Bid me, Good morning ! LOGOGRIPH* FOR man's support, I came,... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 pages
...to me's a secret yet. "Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear: Then steal away. give little warning. Choose thine own time, say not good night, But in some brighter clime bid me good morning." It is a mystery, and yet familiar to us... | |
| 1846 - 302 pages
...Ajid not unseen, though a spirit, dost look down upon us from the stars." TO LIFE. BY MRS. BARBAULD. Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...weather ; 'Tis hard to part, when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cause a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time,... | |
| 1846 - 308 pages
...unseen, though a spirit, dost look down upon us from the stars. TO LIFE. BY MRS.-BARBADLD. Life ! wejve been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather ; 'Tis hard to part, when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cause a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...make Mrs. Barbauld in her old age look upon death with calm, in the following beautifal lines— " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. 'Tis hard to part v.hen friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose... | |
| 1850 - 594 pages
...through cloudy weather : T is hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear : Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not good-night, but, in some happier clime, Bid me good morning.' RIGHT well pleased shall we be to hear from ' TIMOTHY TWIGGETT.'... | |
| 1850 - 600 pages
...through cloudy weather: 'T in hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps Ч will cost a sigh, a tear : Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not good-night, but, in sonic happier clime. Bid mo good morning.' RIGHT well pleased shall we be to hear from 'TIMOTHY TWIGGETT.'... | |
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