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" ... when, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, and woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream my twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side. "
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta ... - Page 173
by Reginald Heber - 1829
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Catherine, Lovel the Widower, Etc., Etc

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 642 pages
...beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee by my side. I spread my books, my pencil try, the lingering noon to cheer ; But miss thy kind approving eye, thy meek...But when of morn and eve the star beholds me on my knee,I feel, though thou art distant far, thy prayers ascend for me. Then on ! then on ! where duty...
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Some Hymns and Hymn Writers Representing All who Profess and Call Themselves ...

William Budd Bodine - 1907 - 646 pages
...knee, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea. And then, the sterner notes are struck: Then on, then on, where duty leads, My course be onward still, O'er broad Hindustan's sultry meads, O'er bleak Almorah's hill. And then again he looks on to the glad reunion...
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Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 390 pages
...beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee by my side. I spread my books, my pencil try, the lingering noon to cheer; But miss thy kind approving eye, thy meek...be onward still, — O'er broad Hindostan's sultry meads, o'er bleak Almorah's hill. That course nor Delhi's kingly gates, nor wild Malwah detain, For...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580 ..., Volume 3, Pages 843-1252

1912 - 432 pages
...the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side. I spread my books, my pencil try, The lingering noon to cheer, But miss thy kind, approving eye, Thy meek, attentive ear. But when at morn and eve the star Beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, Thy prayers ascend...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

1918 - 2030 pages
...the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side. I spread my books, my pencil try, The lingering noon to cheer, But miss thy kind, approving eye, Thy meek, attentive ear. But when at morn and eve the star Beholds me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, Thy prayers ascend...
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Poets of John Company

Theodore Douglas Dunn - 1921 - 168 pages
...the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side. I spread my books, my pencil try The lingering noon to cheer, But miss thy kind approving eye, Thy meek...though thou art distant far, Thy prayers ascend for me. 31 Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still, O'er broad Hindostan's sultry mead,...
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Poets of John Company

Theodore Douglas Dunn - 1921 - 166 pages
...the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side. I spread my books, my pencil try The lingering noon to cheer, But miss thy kind approving eye, Thy meek...me on my knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, Then on ! then on ! where duty leads, My course be onward still, O'er broad Hindostan's sultry mead,...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? ANNA KATHARINE GREEN— On the Threshold. 24 BISHOP HEBER — Journal. 25 I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 1

William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 408 pages
...thy kind, approving eye, Thy meek, attentive ear But when at morn and eve the star Beholds me on ray knee, I feel, though thou art distant far, Thy prayers...duty leads, My course be onward still, O'er broad Himlostan's sultry meads, O'er bleak Almorah's hill. That course nor Delhi's kingly gates, Nor mild...
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