 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...same kind in English poetry, can be compared with his Lines on receiving his Mother's Picture : — O that those lips had language ! Life has passed With...thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me : Voice only fails, else how distinct they say,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pages
...piece to that of a boisterous little boy, whom I saw attempt to declaim at a school exhibition. " O that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last." He got but very little way before sudden tears shamed him from the stage. Some gleams of the same expression... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...GOLDSMITH. ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE. OH that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...asks, ask'st, &sk'd, sleep, rustfd, TMStles, rustFst. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. COWPER. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With...heard thee last. Those lips are thine; thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me : Voice only fails; else, how distinct they... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...attempt Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells. ON THE RECEIPT OF HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE. COWPER.* O THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With...thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...asks, ask'st, ask'd, sleep, rustFd, rustles, rustFst. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. COWPER. O THAT those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. 17 Those lips arc thine; thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me: Voice... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1845 - 224 pages
...companion-piece to that of a boisterous little boy, whom I saw attempt to declaim at a school exhibition— " O that those lips had language. Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last." He got but a very little way before sudden tears shamed him from the stage. Some gleams of the same... | |
 | Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell - 1845 - 326 pages
...adventure, and used to call me a rude hoyden. CHAPTER V. O that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine. Thy own sweet smile I see. COWPER. NAPOLEON S cONDEScENSION IN ENTERING INTO, AND PROMOTING THE AMUSEMENTS OF cHILDREN.... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 476 pages
...often affected me to tears. ' 0 that those lips had language ! Life has passed But roughly with me since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me j Voice only fails, else how distinct they say... | |
 | 1846 - 332 pages
...pleased to see it entire; we therefore give it below. EDITOR. ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With...thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
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THAT those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine, — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, "Grieve not, my child;... 
