His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so. The Quarterly Review - Page 3271818Full view - About this book
| Armine Thomas Kent - English literature - 1905 - 300 pages
...hand That wipes thy quiet tears, These, these are things that may demand Dread memories for years. " To say ' He has departed ' — ' His voice ' — ' his face ' — is gone ; To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless... | |
| Armine Thomas Kent - English literature - 1905 - 296 pages
...hand That wipes thy quiet tears, These, these are things that may demand Dread memories for years. " To say ' He has departed ' — ' His voice ' — ' his face ' — is gone ; To fee! impatient-hearted. Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless... | |
| English poetry - 1905 - 622 pages
...pat my stooping head, I cannot bear the gentleness, — The tears are in their bed. Ah, first-born of thy mother, When life and hope were new, Kind playmate...light, where'er I go, My bird, when prison-bound, My hand in hand companion, — no, My prayers shall hold thee round. To say " He has departed " — "... | |
| William James Roberts - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 448 pages
...think Of all thy winning ways ; Yet almost wish with sudden shrink That I had less to praise. ***** To say he has departed, His voice, his face is gone ! To feel impatient-hearted Yet feel we must bear on 1 Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless... | |
| Leonard Southerden Wood - Children - 1921 - 396 pages
...quiet tears, — These, these are things that may demand Dread memories for years. . . . Ah, first-born of thy mother, When life and hope were new, Kind playmate...His voice '— ' his face ' — is gone ; To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe. Unless... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1923 - 856 pages
...brother. Thy sister, father too ; My light, where'er I go. My bird, when prison-bound, 30 My hand in hand companion, — no. My prayers shall hold thee round....He has departed ' — ' His voice' — ' his face' — 'isgone '; To feel impatient-hearted. Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...pat my stooping head, ! cannot bear the gentleness, — The tears are in their bed. Ah, first-liorn of thy mother, When life and hope were new ; Kind...No, My prayers shall hold thee round. To say, " He his departed " — " His voice " — " his face " — is gone. To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Literary Collections - 2003 - 204 pages
...And pat my stooping head, I cannot bear the gentleness, The tears are in their bed. Ah, first-born of thy mother, When life and hope were new, Kind playmate...light, where'er I go, My bird, when prison-bound. My hand in hand companion, - no, My prayers shall hold thee round. To say 'He has departed' 'His voice'... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...pat my stooping head, I cannot bear the gentleness, — The tears are in their bed. Ah, first-born brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still....for the starlight dews All silently their tears of impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on, — Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1821 - 664 pages
...And pat my stooping head, I cannot bear the gentleness, The tears aro in their bed. Ah ! first-born of thy mother. When life and hope were new, Kind playmate...companion ; — no, My prayers shall hold thee round." But we cannot afford to give the •whole, or one that follows, much more lively and singular, to his... | |
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