 | Mary Ann Edmunds, Mary A. Jones Edmunds - 1859 - 176 pages
...PART III. POETRY. ORIGINAL AND A FEW TRANSLATIONS.* DEATH. I long to lay this aching; head, And weary heart beneath the soil ; To slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild ; I perish, Oh ! my mother earth Take... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1860 - 420 pages
...sky No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer-evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath...slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For Misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild : I perish ; — O my Mother Earth !... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1860 - 414 pages
...sky No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer-evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath...To slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. PS For Misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild : I perish ;—O my Mother Earth... | |
 | Lowell Mason, Edwards Amasa Park, Austin Phelps - 1860 - 524 pages
...summer evening's latest sigh, That shuts the rose. 3 I long to lay this painful head And aching he;irt beneath the soil ; To slumber, in that dreamless bed, From all my toil. 4 The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1861 - 444 pages
...sky No more disturbs their deep repose, Thau summer evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath...slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For Misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild : I perish ; — O my mother Earth !... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 462 pages
...No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer's evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath...slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For Misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild: I perish : 0, my mother Earth, Take... | |
 | 1862 - 260 pages
...No more disturbs their deep repose Than summer evening's latest sigh, That shuts the rose. 3 I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath...slumber, in that dreamless bed, From all my toil. 4 The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall... | |
 | Lays - 1862 - 406 pages
...No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer, evening's latest sigh, That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head, And aching heart, beneath...To slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. The grave, that never spake before, Hath found at length a tongue to chide ; O listen ! — I will... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1862 - 380 pages
...more disturbs their deep repose Than summer evening's latest sigh, That shuts the rose. i 3 I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath...slumber, in that dreamless bed, From all my toil. 4 The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...sky No more disturbs their deep repose, Than summer evening's latest sigh That shuts the rose. I long to lay this painful head And aching heart beneath...slumber in that dreamless bed From all my toil. For misery stole me at my birth, And cast me helpless on the wild : I perish ; Oh, my mother earth ! Take... | |
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There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, — They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground. 
