 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...the beautiful little poem of Cowper, on the receipt of his mother's pictureMy mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed? Hover•d thy spirit o•er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? I heard... | |
 | Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...relief, Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...relief, Shall steep me in Elysian revery, A momentary dream that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun * Perhaps... | |
 | Sullivan Hardy Weston - 1841 - 52 pages
...gloom For that celestial light ? Farewell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells. EXAMPLE 3.—Sorrow. My Mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say,...sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? I heard the bell tolled on thy funeral day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning... | |
 | Religion - 1841 - 592 pages
...before his mother's portrait and giving vent, in touching numbers, to his soul's deep emotion ? — "My mother ! When I learned that thou wast dead, Say,...son, Wretch, even then life's journey just begun? IVrhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Porhaps a tear, if souls cau weep in bliss. Ah, that... | |
 | 1876 - 516 pages
...ever read Cowper's deeply pathetic lines on the receipt of his mother's picture without tears — " My mother ! when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I sh«d ?" But I need not quote lines so familiar. The phrase in Psalm xxxv. 14, is very expressive —... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1841 - 358 pages
...Mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah that maternal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...Shall steep me in Elysian reverie, } A momentary dream, that thou art she. My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1841 - 362 pages
...Mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? — Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learn'd at... | |
 | 1842 - 622 pages
...grave. There I etand chastened, subdued, penitent and humbled. " My mother ! when I learned that Ihou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I...son, Wretch, even then, life's journey just begun 7 Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, н kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss. * * *... | |
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Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes... 
