 Nor feel the breeze that round thee lingering strays, To drink thy balmy breath, And sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above thy wat'ry bed, And whisper to me, on the wave-beat shore, Deep murm'ring in reproach, Thy sad untimely fate. Ere those...  Phantasmion - Page 141by Sara Coleridge Coleridge - 1837 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sara Coleridge Coleridge - 1837 - 400 pages
...sleeper, and let it fall on the soft bed of sand. Then in a low lulling tone she sang these words : — O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel...light, In vain to plead, thy coming life was sold, 0 ! wakened but to sleep, Whence it can wake no more ! A thousand and a thousand silken leaves The... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pages
...Seshelma, a malignant, watery being, whose deceitful aid she has purchased at that dear price : — ' 0 sleep, my babe ! Hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel...sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above thy watery bed, And whisper to me on the wave-beat shore, Deep murm'ring in reproach Thy sad, untimely... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 pages
...Seshelma, a malignant, watery being, whose deceitful aid she has purchased at that dear price : — ' O sleep, my babe ! Hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel the breeze that round thce lingering strays, To drink thy balmy breath, And sigh one long farewell. Soon Soon shall it mourn... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 520 pages
...swoon, Like lilies drooping mid the blaze of nooTi.' A MOTHER OVER HER CHILD DEVOTED TO DEATH. ' O SLEEP, my babe ! Hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel...sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above thy watery bed, And whisper to me on the wave-beat shore, Deep murm'ring in reproach Thy sad, untimely... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...opens his glad eyes, Softly, slowly : Minstrel, wake ! SARA COLERIDGE 661. 0 sleep, my Babe 18oi-1?5° SLEEP, my babe, hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel the breeze that round thee ling' ring strays To drink thy balmy breath, And sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1902 - 1118 pages
...Babe SLEEP, my babe, hear not the rippling wive, Nor feel the breeze that round thee ling'ring stnjs To drink thy balmy breath, And sigh one long farewell....light, In vain to plead, thy coming life was sold, O waken'd but to sleep, A thousand and a thousand silken leaves The tufted beech unfolds in early spring,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 232 pages
...have seen thy look in death No more may fear to die. SARA COLERIDGE 1802-1852 1oo. O Sleep, my Babe O SLEEP, my babe, hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel the breeze that round thee ling'ring strays To drink thy balmy breath, And sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above thy... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 pages
...spring-tide zun, But my life, Jeane, is now a-run To slanten light o' Fall. SARA COLERIDGE O SLEEP, MY BABE O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel the breeze that round thee ling'ring strays To drink thy balmy breath, And sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above thy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pages
...Seshelmo, a malignant, watery being, whose deceitful aid she has purchased at that dear price : — ' O sleep, my babe ! Hear not the rippling wave, Nor feel...sigh one long farewell. Soon shall it mourn above thy watery bed, And whisper to me on the wave-beat shore, Deep murm'ring in reproach Thy sad, untimely... | |
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