 | 1876 - 590 pages
...poem as always pointing to Heaven. " I would that thus when I should see The hour of death draw near to me. Hope blossoming within my heart. May look to Heaven as I depart." The famous lines, commencing. " Truth crushed to earth," are here introduced in the shape of an ornamental... | |
 | 1878 - 604 pages
...doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that eky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. The... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 pages
...hopes that, just as the fringed gentian blossoms late " when woods are bare and birds are flown," so Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. The fancy is pretty, and welcome here ; but the love of finding morals everywhere is shared by the... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 466 pages
...flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to mo, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. HYMN Off THE CITY. NOT in the solitude Alone may man commune with Heaven, or see Only in savage wood... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye I/ook through its fringes to the sky, Bine — blue — as bers of midnight the sailor-boy lay hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. WILLIAM... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 290 pages
...his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Bryant... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 346 pages
...near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky ; Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. BRYANT.... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 364 pages
...near its end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky; Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart 6.-DAFFODILS.... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 284 pages
...his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Bryant... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 328 pages
...quiet eye Look through its fringes to the sky, Blue — blue — as if that sky let fall A flower frcm its cerulean wall. I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart. Bryant... | |
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Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its fringes to the... 
