 | Thomas Campbell - 1803 - 162 pages
...knew the sweet strain that the corn reapers sung. Then pledg'd we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. " Stay—stay with... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. ,(3CMU IkilGV Then pledg'd we the wine cup, and fondly I swore From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud, in her fulness of heart. 'I" 'Stay, stay... | |
 | 1804 - 450 pages
...well knew the strain that the corn- reapers sung. Then pledg'd we the wine cup, and fondly we swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; •My little one. kiss'd me a thousand timei o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in the fulness of heart. Stay ! stay... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 266 pages
...knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledg'd we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 272 pages
...knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledg'd we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times, o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledg'd we the wine cup, and fondly I swore, From my home, and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. — Slay, stay with... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pages
...wife sobb'd aloud, in the fulness of heart— ' Stay, stay with us, rest—thou art weary and worn!' From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And fain was the war-broken soldier to stay; But sorrow return'd with... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledg'd we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledg'd we the wine cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kiss'd me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobb'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...weeping friends never to part i My little ones kiss'd me a thousand tines o'er, And my wife sohh'd aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us—...rest, thou art weary and worn :— And fain was their war-hroken soldier to stay; But sorrow retnrn'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming... | |
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In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. 
