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" ... immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread : But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace... "
The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which ... - Page 17
by Edward Young - 1775 - 388 pages
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft no trace is found, As from the wing no scar the sky cries, ' till nought : k 'en with the tender tear which nature sheds *J er those we love, we drop it in their grave. [From...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Soon close ; where past the shaft no trace is found, 1 ! As from the wing no scar the sky retains, 1 hambers : E'en with the tender tear which nature sheds ( O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. _ [From...
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The Reader's Guide: Containing a Notice of the Elementary Sounds in the ...

John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...wounded air', 30 Soon close ; where passed the shaft' no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains', The parted wave no furrow from the keel',...of death' : Even with the tender tear which nature sheds' 35 O'er those we love, we drop it' in their grave. LESSON CI. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB....
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft no trace is found, As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. THE MAN WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD.2 SOME angel guide my pencil, while I draw — What nothing...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...wounded air, Soon close ; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Ev'n with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those wo love, we drop it in their grave." His Universal...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...wounded air, Soon close ; where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Ev'n with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave." His Universal...
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The Christian lyre, a selection of religious and moral poetry

Christian lyre - 1846 - 188 pages
...FAREWELL. 73 Soon close ; where passed the shaft no trace is found, As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel,...of death : Even with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. YOUNG. THE EVENING STAR. STAB of the evening !...
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...wounded air, Soon close ; where passed the shaft, no trace is found, As from the wing no stain the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies, in human hearts, the thought of death. Like birds, whose beauties languish half-concealed, Till mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes Expanded,...
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The Journey of Life

Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 pages
...vm. THE EFFORTS OF MAN TO UNDERSTAND HIS OWN NATURE AND DESTINY. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death. YOUNG. IT is both interesting and very remarkable to observe the pains taken, in ancient days, by heathen...
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Sir Roland Ashton: A Tale of the Times

Lady Catharine Long - 1847 - 596 pages
...wounded air, Soon close ; where past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave no furrow from the keel ; So dies in human hearts the thought of death.E'en with the tender tear which nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave."...
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