 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...the bliss, of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark ! they whisper — angels say, " Sister spirit, come...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? — Tell me, my soul ! can this be death ? The world recedes ! — it disappears... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1825 - 490 pages
...bliss, of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife ; And let me languish into life. II. Hark ! they whisper. Angels say, Sister spirit, come away....quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my spul, can this be death ? III. The world recedes : it disappears.... | |
 | 1825 - 140 pages
...lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in." I. 121 CHAPTER XII. ••Hark ! they whisper, angels say ' Sister spirit, come away.'...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath, Tell me, my soul, can this be death i "The world recedes, it disappears —... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...lingering,'flying, .• — f -i •. .- -I 10 Hark! they whisper—angels say, -.3,-•i,..,; <,-••. " Sister spirit, come away"— What is this absorbs...draws my breath ?•— Tell me, my soul, can this be—death? With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount! I iTy7 O Grave ! Where is thy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...senses, ehitts my sight, Prowus my spirits, draw» my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can tliis be death? hit, And heals with morals what it hurts with wit....our captive's charms : Her arts victorious triump I fly Î Oh grave ! where is thy victory r Oh death I where is thy sting. AN ESSAV ON CRITICISM. Written... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away....draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend,... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1827 - 140 pages
...spirit, come away! What is this absorbs me quite—- Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death...sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave, where is thy victory ! 0 death, where is thy sting! 112 HYMNS. ZXZ. JUDGMENT. HYMN... | |
 | Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of the State of New York and Adjacent States and Countries - 1827 - 438 pages
...the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2. Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away."...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 3. The world recedes ; it disappears.... | |
 | 1827 - 162 pages
...the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper ! angels say, Sister spirit, come away...quite — Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 3 The world recedes, it disappears... | |
 | 1828 - 198 pages
...pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Z Hark, they whisper — angels say, "Sister spirit, come...sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? POPE. TANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. \Vhere... | |
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The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting. 
