 | John Keble - Christian poetry - 1827 - 216 pages
...even beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, Bids weep no more — 0 heart bereft, How strange, to thee, that sound ! A...widow o'er her only son, Feeling more bitterly alone The friends that press officious round. Yet is the voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touch'd... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1836 - 420 pages
...kinder, truer voice I hear, Which, even beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, " Bids weep no more. — O heart bereft, How...officious round. " Yet is the voice of comfort heard, The bearers wait with wondering eye, For Christ hath touch'd the bier, — The swelling bosom dares... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1837 - 188 pages
...kinder, truer voice I hear, Which even beside that mournful bier Whence parents's eyes would hopeless shrink, Bids weep no more — O heart bereft, How...Yet is the voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touched the bier — The bearers wait with wondering eye, The swelling bosom dares not sigh, But all... | |
 | John Keble - Christian poetry, English - 1837 - 442 pages
...kinder truer voice I hear, Which even beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, Bids weep no more — O heart bereft. How strange, to thee, that sound 1 A widow o'er her only son, Feeling more bitterly alone For friends that press officious round. Yet... | |
 | Isaac Williams - Bible - 1846 - 158 pages
...kinder, truer voice I hear, Which even beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, Bids weep no more. — O heart bereft, How...Yet is the voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touched the bier — The bearers wait with wondering eye, The swelling bosom dares not sigh, But all... | |
 | Isaac Williams - Bible - 1845 - 108 pages
...even beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, Bids weep no more. — О heart bereft, How strange to thee that sound ! A widow...Yet is the voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touched the bier — The bearers wait with wondering eye, The swelling bosom dares not sigh, But all... | |
 | Canada - 1853 - 692 pages
...Bids weep no more — 0 hearts bereft, How strange to thee that mournful sound, Sad parents o'er their only son, Feeling more bitterly alone For friends that press officious round. E'en such an awful soothing calm We sometimes see alight On Christian mourners, while they wait In... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...kinder, truer voice I hear, "Which even beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink Bids weep no more — O heart bereft, How strange,...bitterly alone For friends that press officious round. Tet is the voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touch' d the bier — The bearers wait with wondering... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Bible - 1863 - 436 pages
...truer voice I hear. Which even beside that mournful bier, Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, 2 Bids weep no more.— O heart bereft, How strange...bitterly alone For friends that press officious round. 3 Yet is the voice of comfort beard, For Christ hath touched the bier: The bearers wait with wondering... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1863 - 450 pages
...truer voice I hear, Which even beside that mournful bier, Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, 2 Bids weep no more. — O heart bereft, How strange...bitterly alone For friends that press officious round. 3 Yet is the voice of comfort heard, For Christ hath touched the bier: The bearers wait with wondering... | |
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Who says the widow's heart must break, The childless mother sink ? — A kinder, truer voice I hear, Which even beside that mournful bier Whence parents' eyes would hopeless shrink, Bids weep no more— O heart bereft, How strange, to thee, that sound... 
