 I ask not that my bed of death From bands of greedy heirs be free; For these besiege the latest breath Of fortune's favour'd sons, not me. I ask not each kind soul to keep Tearless, when of my death he hears. Let those who will, if any, weep! There are...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 24edited by - 1916Full view - About this book
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...my death he hears. Let those who will, if any, weep ! There are worse plagues on earth than tears. listlessness or sport. Make what Himself would fain,...a manner, be — Weaker in most points, stronger i l;isl, to quit my side. Spare me the whispering, crowded room, The friends who come, and gape, and... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1905 - 308 pages
...attack on Sunday, April 15, 1 888, having been spared, as he hopes in his little poem called A Wish, — 'the whispering, crowded room, The friends who come,...of gloom — All, which makes death a hideous show ! ' 28 Than the physician, no one has a better opporr J ? ' ' dan and the tunity to study the attitude... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 pages
...my death he hears. Let those who will, if any, weep 1 There are worse plagues on earth than tears. I ask but that my death may find The freedom to my...of gloom — All, which makes death a hideous show ! Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1908 - 328 pages
...death he hears. Let those who will, if any — weep ! There are worse plagues on earth than tears. ' I ask but that my death may find The freedom to my...of gloom — All, which makes death a hideous show ! ' Nor bring to see me cease to live Some doctor full of phrase and fame To shake his sapient head... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...not me. • BRITISH POETS There are worse plagues on earth than tears. I ask but that my death mav day, That it was held enough to say, In blessing...Wilton and like Clare ! " November, JfiOG — January Tlie friends who come, and gape, and go; The ceremonious air of gloom— All, which makes death a hideous... | |
 | 1912 - 616 pages
...of my death he hears. Let those who will, if any, weep! There are worse plagues on earth than tears. I ask but that my death may find The freedom to my...of gloom — All, which makes death a hideous show! Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head,... | |
 | 1898 - 1032 pages
...my death he hears. Let those who will, if any, weep ! There are worse plagues on earth than tears. I ask but that my death may find The freedom to my...folly of mankind Then, then at last, to quit my side. Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head,... | |
 | Winifred Stephens Whale - 1912 - 470 pages
...that there had been no time to summon relatives from a distance to her bedside. She had been spared " the whispering crowded room, The friends who come, and gape, and go." The last sad parting with her husband she might have dreaded. But he did not return until three days after... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1914 - 346 pages
...my death he hears. Let those who will, if any, weep ! There are worse plagues on earth than tears. " I ask but that my death may find The freedom to my...folly of mankind Then, then at last, to quit my side. " Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head,... | |
 | Amy Carmichael - 1916 - 498 pages
...breath Of fortune's favour'd sons, not me. "Spare me the whispering, crowded room, The friends who como, and gape, and go ; The ceremonious air of gloom — All, which makes death a hideous show ! " Nor bring, to see mo cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head,... | |
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