 | Mark Van Doren - Poetry - 1928 - 1390 pages
...strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...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 this be Death ? The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring : 15 Lend, lend your wings ! I mount !... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...strife, And let me languish into life. " Hark ! they whisper ; angels 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... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pages
...strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; angels 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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 422 pages
...strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels 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... | |
 | Music - 1994 - 270 pages
...whisper, angels say, Sister spirit come away, Sister spirit come away. What is this absorbs me \'iite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight. Drowns my spirit, draws my breath, 533 •H1 B — -i F ^_ -ff1 ft 1 ,_ r-, • S^± in fi y *-H = = 1 — F T 1 -| 1 1 3J^^ *i~ — V*^... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 pages
...And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper ; angels 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... | |
 | John Reed - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 528 pages
...say, elsewhere. The poem is a kind of secular version of Pope's poem which Schubert set in Verklarung: 'The world recedes, it disappears/ Heaven opens on my eyes, my ears/ With sounds seraphic ring.' But what worlds away from the conventional piety of that earlier (1813) song is the rhapsodic afflatus... | |
 | Religion - 1984 - 266 pages
...Christian, I can fancy that he will say: Hark! they whisper: angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite— Steals my senses— shuts...draws my breath? Tell me, my soul, can this be death? We know not when he is dying. One gentle sigh, and the spirit breaks away. We can scarcely say, "He... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 2000 - 514 pages
...strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels 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... | |
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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. 
