 | 1822 - 284 pages
...the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts...sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings ! I mount! 1 fly! O grave! where is thy victory ? O death! where is thy sting ? TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. II. Hark ! they whisper ; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come...draws my breath ? Tell me, my Soul, can this be death ? III. The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 396 pages
...pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife. And let me languish into life. II. Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come...draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be Death ? III. The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...the pain, the bFiss of dying ! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark ! they whisper ; angels say. Sister spirit, come...senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my oreath ; Tell me, my soul, can this be Death? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my... | |
 | Selection - 1822 - 276 pages
...the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper ; angels say " Sister spirit,...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... | |
 | 1840 - 520 pages
...the pain, the bliss, of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. "Hark! they whisper, angels say, ' Sister spirit,...quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath f Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? " The world recedes, it disappears,... | |
 | Allen Fisk - 1822 - 192 pages
...'lying Î Cease, loud nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark ! they wisper ; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this...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... | |
 | 1833 - 958 pages
...constantly in her mind for a considerable time. Once she exclaimed, " The world recedes, It disappears i Heaven opens on my eyes ; my ears With sounds seraphic ring. Lend, lend your wings, I monnt, I fly j O grave! where l« thy victory t O death! where is thy sting l" A few days before her... | |
 | 1824 - 920 pages
...anxious tone, he bfgan to inquire : "•What is this absorbs me quite ; Steals ray senses, shuts ray sight ; Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ?" During the evening of this ever memorable day, though his bodily suffering was great, Ma. LLOYD... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...eyes are so dim, I cannot see." He said, " My dear, this is what I have often heard you sing, — ' What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight?' " "O father," she exclaimed, "I know I am going to heaven." Afterwards, being asked if she was comfortable,... | |
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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... 
