 THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my Soul was torn. O Mary ! dear, departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hearst...  Rambles Through the Land of Burns - Page 231by Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...mane, as I do here. Byron. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1830 - 340 pages
...from memory, the sublime and pathetic verses — " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray That lovest to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O, Mary ! dear departed shade, Where is thy place of blissful rest ; See'st thou thy lover lowly laid,... | |
 | Jonathan Lawrence - American poetry - 1833 - 196 pages
...they exchanged, are expressed in language to which verse could add no poetry. The stanzas beginning, Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, embody the essence of all the tenderness that brokenhearted love could feel, and the substance of all... | |
 | Robert Burns - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 420 pages
...the star." When he came in he seemed deeply dejected, and sat down and wrote the first verse : — " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st...usherest in the day. My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary : dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...Phililu, bodderoo, &c. TO MARY IN HEAVEN. (Burns.) THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day, My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Serst thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
..." Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. Oh, Mary...departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? fleett thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? That sacred hour... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...vanished for ever and aye ! TO MARY IN HEAVEN. THOU lingering star, with lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...facility of one copying from memory, the grandly melancholy hymn which follows : "Thou ling'ringstar, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. Oh, Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place... | |
 | John Wilson, Robert Chambers - Engraving - 1840 - 364 pages
...from memory, the sublime and pathetic verses — " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray. That loves to greet the early morn. Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my suul ivai torn." &c. Part of Tam O'Shanter, on the other hand, as befitted a comic effort, was composed... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 pages
...memory, the sublime and pathetic verses — " Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn, Again thou usherest in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O, Mary ! dear departed shade, Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid,... | |
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