 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...GOLDSMITH. ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE. OH that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...Lines on receiving his Mother's Picture : — O that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me : Voice only fails, else how distinct they say,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. 17 Those lips arc thine; thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me:...distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child ; chase all thy fears away ! " The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalize,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...has past With me but roughly since I heard thee last.2 Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ;...how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away ! " The meek intelligence of those dear eyes — Blessed be the art that can immortalize,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...With me but roughly since I heard thee last. 2. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smiles I see, t The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice...distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child ; chase all thy fears away ! " The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalise,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. COWPER. O THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine; thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me : Voice only fails; else, how distinct they... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...THE RECEIPT OF HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE. COWPER.* O THAT those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
 | Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell - France - 1845 - 326 pages
...and used to call me a rude hoyden. CHAPTER V. O that those lips had language ! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine. Thy own sweet smile I see. COWPER. NAPOLEON S cONDEScENSION IN ENTERING INTO, AND PROMOTING THE AMUSEMENTS OF cHILDREN.... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1845 - 476 pages
...often affected me to tears. ' 0 that those lips had language ! Life has passed But roughly with me since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me j Voice only fails, else how distinct they say... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...of Norfolk, the gift of my cousin Ann Bodham. 0 THAT those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same, that oft in childhood solac'd me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they... | |
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I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else, how distinct they say, 'Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!' The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles time's... 
