 | 1843 - 708 pàgines
...Death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold, No smiling courtiers tread ; One silent woman stands billing with meagre hands A dying head. No mingling voices sound — An infant wail alone ; A sob suppress'd... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pàgines
...Death doth keep his state : Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread...meagre hands A dying head. No mingling voices sound — One infant wail alone ; A sob suppressed — again That short, deep gasp, and then The parting... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pàgines
...courtiers tread, One silent woman stands Chafing with pale thin hands A dying head. No busy murmurs sound ; An infant wail alone : A sob suppressed —...That short deep gasp — and then The parting groan ! O change! O wondrous change! Burst are the prison bars ! This moment there — so low In mortal prayer... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...Death doth keep his state, Enter — no crowds attend — Enter — no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement, damp and cold, No smiling courtiers...mingling voices sound — An infant wail alone ; A sob suppress'd — again That short deep gasp, and then The parting groan. Oh ! change — oh wondrous... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1845 - 294 pàgines
...courtiers tread. One silent woman stands Chafing with pale, thin hands, A dying head. No busy murmurs sound ; An infant wail alone : A sob suppressed —...That short, deep gasp — and then The parting groan ! O change ! O wondrous change ! Burst are the prison bars ! This moment there — so low In mortal... | |
 | Caroline Bowles Southey - 1845 - 208 pàgines
...Death doth keep his state : Enter—no crowds attend— Enter—no guards defend This palace gate. That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread : One silent woman stands Lifting with meager hands A dying head. No mingling voices sound— An infant wail alone; A sob suppress'd—again... | |
 | George Williams Fulcher - 1845 - 234 pàgines
...one right way, Safe to the realms of everlasting day. THE VILLAGE PAUPERS. PART II. THE DEATH-BED. "Oh! change — Oh! wondrous change — Burst are the prison bars — This moment i in.ui;, so low, So agonized, and now Beyond the stars!" The wintry blasts had to their caverns fled,... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pàgines
...palace-gate. * The hollow side of the hill, where game usually lies. 160 AN INVITATION TO PRAISE GOD, That pavement damp and cold No smiling courtiers tread...sound, — An infant wail alone ; — A sob suppressed, — agen That short, deep gasp, and then The parting groan. O change ! — O wondrous change ! •... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pàgines
...infant wail alone; A sob suppressed — agen That short, deep gasp — and then The parting groan. 0 change, oh, wondrous change ! Burst are the prison...so low, So agonized, — and now Beyond the stars ! 0 change ! stupendous change ! There lies the senseless clod ; The soul from bondage breaks, The... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pàgines
...pavement, damp and cold, No whispering courtiers tread ; One silent woman stands, Lifting with pale thin hands A dying head. No mingling voices sound — An infant wail alone ; A sob suppressed — agen That short, deep gasp — and then The parting groan. O change, oh, wondrous change ! Burst... | |
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Stranger ! however great, with lowly reverence bow ; there's one in that poor shed — one by that paltry bed — greater than thou. Beneath that beggar's roof, lo ! Death doth keep his state ! Enter — no crowds attend ; enter — no guards defend this... 
