 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1827 - 106 sidor
...! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! ' And now farewell ! 't is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle...dark sin — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee — May God have called thee like a wanderer home, My erring Absalom... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1827 - 112 sidor
...waiting to be broken; How will its love for thee, as I depart, Long for thine ear to catch its dying token! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! ' And now farewell! 't is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee. And thy dark sin—oh ! I... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 sidor
...tresses to the soft winds flung; But thou no more with thy sweet voice shall come To meet me, Absalom! 5. And now farewell! 'tis hard to give thee up, With...death so like a gentle slumber on thee, And thy dark sin—oh! I would drink the cup, If from this wo, its bitterness had spar'd thee;— May God have call'd... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 sidor
...depart, " And, oh ! when I am stricken, and my heart, Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token! " And now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give thee up, With... | |
 | John Pierpont, Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 382 sidor
...Absalom ! " And, oh! when I am stricken, and my heart, Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, Hbw will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine...gentle slumber on thee:— And thy dark sin !—Oh ! 1 could drink the cup, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 446 sidor
...waiting to be broken ; How will its love for thee, as I depart, Long for thine ear to catch its dying token ! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! ' And now farewell ! 't is hard to give thee up, If from this wo its bitterness had won thee — May God have call'dthee... | |
 | 1829 - 436 sidor
...dying token! 'And oh ! when I am stricken, and my heart Like a bruised reed is waiting to be broken; It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! If from this wo its bitterness had won thee— May God have call'd thee like a wanderer home, My... | |
 | 1830 - 494 sidor
...Absalom ! " And oh ! when I am stricken, and my heart, Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for...gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! " And now, farewell ! 't is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ! And thy dark sin ! —... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 sidor
...Absalom ! ' And, oh ! when I am stricken, and my heart, Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, . Yearn for...gloom, To see thee, Absalom ! ' And now, farewell ! 'T is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee : — And thy dark sin !... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 sidor
...Absalom! 20# 'And, oh! when I am stricken, and my heart, Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for...gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom! 'And now, farewell! 'T is hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee:— And thy dark sin!—Oh!... | |
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Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ! And thy dark sin ! — oh ! I could drink the cup, If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer home, My lost boy, Absalom... 
