Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night,— but... Memphis Medical Monthly - Page 6751903Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 434 pages
...without thought or feeling be ? 0 say what art thou, when no more thou 'rt thee ? «• Life ! we 've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ;... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me 'sa secret yet. Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...every night) Mrs. Barbauld's solemn-sweet stanza, composed when she too was very old — Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather ; "Tis hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time,... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...unseen, though a spirit, dost look down upon us from the stars. TO LIFE. BY MRS.-BARBADLD. Life ! wejve been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather ; 'Tis hard to part, when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cause a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...Barbauld in her old age look upon death with calm, in the following beautifal lines— " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. 'Tis hard to part v.hen friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose... | |
| James Hamilton - Bible - 1852 - 393 pages
...advancing years it has been sweetly and cheerfully sung by an English poetess :—f " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ;... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...tremulousness in that grave voice of his, to give his recitation the effect of deep feeling. " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather. "Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say... | |
| James Hamilton - Bible - 1853 - 400 pages
...advancing years it has been sweetly and cheerfully sung by an English poetess : — f " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ;... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1854 - 468 pages
...tremulousness in that grave voice of his to give his recitation the effect of deep feeling : Life ! we 've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time... | |
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