 Sweet is the hour of rest ! Pleasant the wind's low sigh, And the gleaming of the west, And the turf whereon we lie ; When the burden and the heat Of labour's task are o'er, And kindly voices greet The tired one at his door. Come to the sunset tree !...  The British Female Poets - Page 256by George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 292 pages
...the Tyrolean peasantry at sunset, as versified by Mrs. Hemans, was forcibly recalled by the scene : " Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone...woodman's axe lies free, . And the reaper's work is done. Sweet is the hour of rest ! Pleasant the wood's low sigh, And the gleaming of the west, And the turf... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 350 pages
...Can shadow forth of Heaven. EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE. 187 EVENING SONG OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS.1 COME to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone;...the wind's low sigh, And the gleaming of the west, And the turf whereon we lie ; When the burden and the heat Of labour's task are o'er, And kindly voices... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 618 pages
...trusting eyes From the hills our fathers trode, To the quiet of the skies, To the Sabbath of our God. Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone,...woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. 1 " Wohl ihra, er ist hingegangen Wo kein schnee mehr ist." THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD. FORGET them not... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 360 pages
...the burden and the heat Of labour's task are o'er, And kindly voices greet The tired one at his door. Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone;...woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. Yes ; tuneful is the sound That dwells in whispering boughs; Welcome the freshness round ! And the... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1841 - 348 pages
...trusting eyes From the hills our fathers trode, To the quiet of the sMes, To the Sabbath of our God. Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone...axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD. FOKGET them not : — though now their name Be but a mournful sound, • " Wohl... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 350 pages
...trusting eyes From the hills our fathers trode, To the quiet of the skies, To the Sabbath of our God. Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone,...woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. 1 " Wohl ihm, er ist hingegangen Wo kein schnee mehr ist." SCHILLER'S Nadowcssiclte Todtenklage. THE... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 352 pages
...trusting eyes From the hills our fathers trode, To the quiet of the skies, To the Sabbath of our God. Come to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone,...woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. 1 " Wohl ihm, er ist hingegangen Wo kein schnee mehr ist." SCHILLER'S Nadowcssiche Todtenklngt: THE... | |
 | 1847 - 906 pages
...he treads, And thinks no lamp so clearing As that light which heaven sheds . TYROLESE EVENING HYMN. COME to the sunset tree ! The day is past and gone ; The woodman's axe lies free, The reaper's work is done. The twilight star to heaven, And the summer dew to flowers, And rest to... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1853 - 344 pages
...thing of Mrs. Hemans's, " Evening Song of the Tyrolese Peasants." She hummed it again and again : — " Sweet is the hour of rest ! Pleasant the wind's low sigh, And the gleaming of the west, And the turf whereon we lie ; When the burden and the heat Ot'labour's task are o'er, And kindly voices... | |
 | Elias Nason - 1850 - 126 pages
...woodman's axe lies free, A nd the reapers' work is done. * Born in Beverly, Mass., 1795, and died in 1849. The twilight star to heaven, And the summer dew to...rest to us is given By the cool soft evening hours. 2 Sweet is the hour of rest ! Pleasant the wood's low sigh, And the gleaming of the west, And the turf... | |
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