 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...wish, as told in the first four lines ?— " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear. Which mourns thy exit from a world like this; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the realms of bliss." * The following is well expressed, had it been on a better... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Isle of Wight (England) - 1850 - 228 pages
...omitting that with the following lines : — Forgive, bless'd shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would hare kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confin'd to grov'ling scenes... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - France - 1851 - 234 pages
...fine verses have been set to music in England. Forglve, blest shade ! the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish...progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined to grovelling scenes of night ; No more a tenant, pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious... | |
 | Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 pages
...YE WOULD REJOICE, BECAUSE I GO UNTO MY FATHER." FORGIVE, blest shade, the tributary tear That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined to grovelling scenes of night, No more... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1851 - 506 pages
...Hallows Belli, Esq. and of Sarah, his wife. Forgive blest shades the tributary tear, That mourns your exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept ye here, And stay'd your progress to the seats of bliss. Sacred to the Memory of Mrs Elizabeth Gcraldina,... | |
 | 1864 - 556 pages
...one stone we read the following lines :— " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this; Forgive the wish...progress to the seats of bliss. " No more confined to grovelling scenes of night ; No more a tenant pent in mortal clay ; Now should we rather hail thy glorious... | |
 | M A. Meredith - 1852 - 194 pages
...cannot mourn for her, and are ready to exclaim "Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this, Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss. "No more confined to grovelling scenes of night, No more... | |
 | Mrs. Winter - Lord's prayer - 1852 - 90 pages
...unavailing tear. Yet why regret, or mourn thy short career, Since earthly good fast hastens to decay ? " Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, " And stay'd thy progress to the realms of day." E'en there perchance 'tis granted thee to know Those friends to whom thou wast so justly... | |
 | Benjamin Clarke - England - 1852 - 820 pages
...of a lady, Mrs. Anne Kerry : — " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy absence from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And staid thy progress to the seats of bliss. " No moro confined to grovelling scenes of night — No more... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...The following was her appointed task : — " Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish...progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined to grovelling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious... | |
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Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant... 
