 scape from chill misfortune's gloom, From helpless age and joyless years ; To sleep where flowerets round us bloom ; — Can such a fate deserve our tears ? Since, in the tomb, our cares, our woes, In dark oblivion buried lie, Why paint that scene of...  Contemplation: With Other Poems - Página 152por Alexander Balfour - 1820 - 340 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1834 - 442 páginas
...GARDEN GRAVES: OR THE swiss CUSTOM OF PLANTING FLOWERS IN CEMETERIES. From the French of De Lille. Since in the tomb our cares, our woes, In dark oblivion...flight, Who hovering o'er the marble shrine, Reversed a flambeau's trembling light. To die ! — what is in death to fear? 'Twill decompose my lifeless frame!... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 páginas
...and joyless years ; To sleep where flowerets round us bloom ; — Can such a fate deserve our tears ? In dark oblivion buried lie, Why paint that scene of calm repose Since, in the tomb, our cares, our woes, In figures painful to the eye ? To die ! — what is in death... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 páginas
...from chill misfortune's gloom, From helpless age and joyless years; To sleep where flowerets i >und us bloom ;— Can such a fate deserve our tears ?...scene of calm repose In figures painful to the eye ? To die ! — what is in death to fear ? 'Twill decompose my lifeless frame ! A Power, unseen, still... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 páginas
...departed friends. — BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. To 'scape from chill misfortune's gloom, From helpless age and joyless years ; To sleep where flowerets round...scene of calm repose In figures painful to the eye ? To die ! — -what is in death to fear ? 'Twill decompose my lifeless frame ! A Power, unseen, still... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 páginas
...PLANTING FLOWERS ON THE GRAVES OF DEPARTED FRIENDS. To 'scape from chill misfortune's gloom, From helpless age and joyless years; To sleep where flowerets round...scene of calm repose In figures painful to the eye ? To die!—what is in death to fear ? 'T will decompose my lifeless frame! A power, unseen, still... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 páginas
...Songs of the Tomb' which follow. ON PLANTING FLOWERS IN CEMETERIES. (/ran the French of De Lille.) Since in the tomb our cares, our woes, In dark oblivion...to the eye ? The wiser Greeks, with chaste design, Portrayed a nymph in airy night, Who hovering o'er the marble shrine, Reversed a flambeau's trembling... | |
 | 1850 - 300 páginas
...PLANTING FLOWERS ON THE GRAVES OF DEPARTED FRIENDS. To 'scape from chill misfortune's gloom, From helpless age and joyless years; To sleep where flowerets round...scene of calm repose In figures painful to the eye ? To die ! — what is in death to fear ? 'T will decompose my lifeless frame ! A power, unseen, still... | |
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