 | Readings - 1843 - 466 Seiten
...shouldst die! And leave his stillness in this clustering hair! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair! That death should settle in thy glorious eye, As to my bosom I have tried to press thee, How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill, My proud boy, Absalom!... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : — " Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom ! Cold is thy brow, my son ! and... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 Seiten
...broke forth In the resistless eloquence of woe :— '* Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die Í Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair '. That death—...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee — for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom t Cold Is thy brow, my son!... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 Seiten
...the resistleas elnsucnce of woe : — "Alas: my noble boy : that il <m shouldst diet Thau, who wen made so beautifully fair ' That death — should settle...glorious eye. And leave his stillness in this clustering lia.r! How ratl/ 1 he mark thee— fur the silent lotub, My proud boy, Absalom I Cold u thy brow, my... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resisfless eloquence of wo : — 6. " Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou should'st die ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair I That death should settle in thy glorious eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...king stood still He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : — " Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair' How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom ! Cold is thy brow, my son ! and... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - 1847 - 282 Seiten
...features of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : "Alas ! my noble boy ! That thou should'st die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb ! My proud boy, Absalom ! " Cold is thy brow, my son !... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1846 - 390 Seiten
...of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : — " Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom ! Cold is thy brow, my son ! and... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 Seiten
...— Milton. " Sail on, thou lone, imperial bird, Of quenchless eye and tireless wing." — Mellen. " Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! Hyperbole. Examples. Irony. Examples. Metonymy. Examples. Synecdoche. Examples. Personification.... | |
 | Mary Anna Fox - 1847 - 146 Seiten
...foregoing notice, whose sudden death, has awakened deep and heartfelt regret in all who knew him : — " Alas, my noble boy, that thou shouldst die ! Thou,...made so beautifully fair ! That death should settle on thy glorious eye, And leave bis stillness in thy clustering hair ! " WILLIS. A FUNERAL train, with... | |
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Alas! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair ! That death should settle in thy glorious eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb ! My proud boy, Absalom... 
