 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...order , sins against th' Eternal Cause. Elegy to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady. What beckoning ghost, along the moon-light shade, Invites my steps,...yonder glade? 'Tis she! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword? Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly! tell, Is it, in heaven,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns ! ELEGY TO THE •i:'l. , OF An UNFORTUNATE LADY. WHAT beckoning le hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols ; ? "IV she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh, ever... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...that e'er anither Could mak' his senses lie or swither. RAMSAY. TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. WHAT beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites...bosom gored ? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword 3 O ! ever beauteous ! ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pages
...fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. III. FROM THE " ELEGY ON AN UNFORTUNATE LADY." What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites...? "Tis she ! — But why that bleeding bosom gored f Why dimly gleams the visionary sword 1 Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is if, in heaven,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...impatient, that she bribed a servont to procure her a sword, which she directed to her heart. What beckoning Ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? 'T is she! — but why that bleeding bosom gored, Why dimly gleams the vision ary sword? Oh ever beauteous,... | |
 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 pages
...errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. in. FROM THE " ELECY ON AN UNFORTUNATE LADY." What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites...visionary sword? Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart ? To act... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 pages
...can paint them who shall feel them most. ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY.i WHAT beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps,...glade ? 'Tis she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd ? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in Heaven,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 768 pages
...delivered the republic from a neighboring, and who, when consul, saved it from a civil war. — CICERO. 36. What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites...bosom gored? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? O ever beauteous, ever friendly, tell, Is it in heaven a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...brink of death, And shudder at the prospeet of futurity. Savage's Sir Thomas Oeerbury What beek'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade ? 'T is she ! — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd 7 Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ? Oh ! ever... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...Empassion'd by our subject, we suppose The Object present, — suddenly it rose ; " What bech'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade, Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? " ©rousts, or Interrogation. 136 This Figure varies and improves the style, Invites to converse, —... | |
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Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die... 
