 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? — Tell me, my soul ! can this be death ? The world recedes ! — it disappears ! — Heaven opens on my eyes ! — my ears With sounds seraphic ring : — Lend, lend your wings !... | |
 | 1825 - 208 pages
...Sister, Spirit come away. 3 What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight ; Drowns my spirits, draws my breath — Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 4 The world recedes, it disappears, Heav'n opens on my eyes, my ears With sounds seraphic ring :... | |
 | Abigail Eames - 1826 - 74 pages
...evident when those lines were repeated out of the hymn, called, " The dying Christian," namely, " Heaven opens on my eyes, my ears With sounds seraphic ring...where is thy victory ? 0 death ! where is thy sting ?" Having had a knowledge of ABIGAIL EAMES, the deceased, for the space of fifteen years ; I think... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 pages
...say, Sifter Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight. Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death? The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!... | |
 | 604 pages
...Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, Let me languish into life." " The world recedes : it disappears ! Heav'n opens on...seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy victory '1 0 Death ! where is thy sting r" The ELEGANT or formal style, staid... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, 10 Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my Soul, can...opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : 15 Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy Victory ? O Death ! where is... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...say, Sister spirit, come away, What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can...this be death ? " The world recedes, it disappears ; Heaven opens on my eyes ; my ears With sounds seraphic ring : IJend, lend your wings ! I mount !... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pages
..."Sister spirit, come away." What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my soul, can this be death? The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 422 pages
...say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my soul, can this be death? The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!... | |
 | Glenn C. Wilcox - 1993 - 366 pages
...mount! I fly, I fly ! 0 grave, where ic thy victory 1 O death, where is thy sting \ I mount, I fly, I mount, I fly ! 0 grave, where is thy victory ? 0 death, where is thy sting 1 %:' t^ FUNERAL ANTHEM. rfe Rev. chap. xiv. ver. 13. Billings. p UJ I heard a great voice from heav'n,... | |
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The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting? 
