 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1889 - 218 pages
...words fell soft, like snow upon the r/round. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted leave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death. Swift in his decay resembled a giant tree withered in its topmost boughs. Metaphor is an implied simile.... | |
 | John McNeill - 1890 - 428 pages
...feet. Such is the life of man. But, alas ! how little these thoughts impress us. "As from the whig no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow.... . So dies in human hearts the thought of death." God grant it may not be so with us, but that to-night, believing and impressed by it, we may shape... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where passed the shaft no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted...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. LI-NES... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1895 - 516 pages
...Blanchard, James Parker, John Phelps.4 So fearfully was the death of Mogg and his warriors avenged. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains ; The parted wave, no furrow from the keel, 'Capt. Benjamin Swett was born in England, in 1626. He came to this country with his father, John Swett,... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1895 - 518 pages
...Blanchard, James Parker, John Phelps.4 So fearfully was the death of Mogg and his warriors avenged. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains; The parted wave, no furrow from the keel, 'Capt. Benjamin Swett was born in England, in 1<!2«. He came to this country with his father, John... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...But theirheart s wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close, where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains ; The parted...;— 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. ON... | |
 | 1897 - 660 pages
...their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close: where passed the shaft no trace is found ; As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted...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. Edward... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...But their hearts wounded, likethe wounded air, Soon close, where, past the shaft, no trace is found. As from the wing, no scar the sky retains ; The parted...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. ON... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 pages
...their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close ; where passed the shaft no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted...keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death ; Even with the tender tears which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in their grave. THE... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air. Soon close; where past the shaft, no trace is found, As from the wing no scar the sky retains. The parted...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. RUDYARD... | |
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Strikes thro' their wounded hearts the sudden dread; But their hearts wounded, like the 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... 
