 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...unimaginative world. — JG LOCKHART. MY MOTHER S PICTURE. 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, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 800 pages
...JVoriCf the gift of my cousin Ann Bodham. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has pasn'd With mo but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...Norfolk, the gift of my cousin Ann .Bud/mm. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With mo but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; VOice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | K. M. Khadye - 1922 - 84 pages
...startWould you learn the spell ? A mother sat there And a sacred|thing is that old arm-chair." And " O that those lips had language ! Life has passed With...but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine-thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood sola ced me. Voice only fails, else... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 pages
...passages, so sweet and sad and simple, are such as, having once been read, can never be forgotten. Oh 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 ; ... I heard the bell tolled on thy burial... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...hearts to guard the fair ! Rule, Britannia, etc. WILLIAM COWPER ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE ar, A frown upon the atmosphere, That hath no business smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...mitherless bairn ! WILLIAM THOM. MY MOTHER'S PICTURE. OUT OF NORFOLK. THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN, ANN BODHAM. 0 THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee lust. Those lips are thine, — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me... | |
 | Henry Neumann - 1926 - 272 pages
...spirit's comrade, The perfect friend. HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PORTRAIT 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,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 906 pages
...dead. Walt Whitman 1 A tribute to Abraham Lincoln. 295 ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OTHAT those lips had language! Life has passed With me but...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,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave no more. 35 ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE at he, whom the most tailors' bills do make room for, when he comes, should not be Lhee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced... | |
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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;... 
