 | 1840 - 378 pages
...childhood, manhood, age and death, To keep us still thine own ! LINES WRITTEN TO HIS WIFE. IF thbu wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at... | |
 | 1862 - 512 pages
...gild the span Of ruin'd earth and sinful man, How glorious must the mansion be 260 HEBEK. STANZAS. If thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pages
...have been satisfied for the rest of her life, never to receive the incense of less hallowed praise. " If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! " If thon, my love ! wert by my side, My babies... | |
 | 1844 - 320 pages
...Matthew Hale. LINES ADDRESSED BY BISHOP HEBER TO HIS WIFE . WHEN ABSENT ON A TOUR THROUGH INDIA. * If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love ! wert by my side, My babies at... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pages
...have been satisfied for the rest of her life, never to receive the incense of less hallowed praise. " If thou wert by my side, my love ! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's pnlmy grove, Listening the nightingale! " If thou, my love! wert by my side, My babies at... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...Full well her archers know, And shame on their name Who despise the British bow. VERSES TO MRS. HEBER. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengah's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my... | |
 | 1845 - 328 pages
...following admirable ballad was written by Bishop HEBER to his wife, while on a visit to Upper India. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail, In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale. If thou, my love, wert by my side, My children at... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1845 - 558 pages
...peace on earth, his hope of heaven ! LINES WRITTEN TO HIS WIFE, WHILE ON A VISIT TO DPPEJl INDU. IP thou wert by my side, my love! How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale! If thou, my love! wert by my side, My babies at my... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1846 - 298 pages
...breath consume, To vivify He slays, and quenches to illume. July, 1828. ON THE DEATH OF BISHOP HEBER. " If thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengalas palmy grove Listening to the nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...Full well her archers know, And shame on their name Who despise the British bow. VERSES TO MRS. HEBER. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Bengala's palmy grove, Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at... | |
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O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when... 
