 | George Washington Bethune - English poetry - 1848 - 520 pages
...that's truly blest, Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone. The heart — the heart ! oh ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothes a brother's care Is never spent in vain. And though it throb at gentlest touch, Or Sorrow's faintest... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1849 - 560 pages
...that's truly blest, Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone. The heart — the heart ! oh ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothes a brother's care Is never spent in vain. And though it throb at gentlest touch, Or sorrow's faintest... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 442 pages
...breast,That beats for self a . - lone. "~-- ^•^•™«— LJ $?£- ^ I The heart— the heart— O ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothes a brother's care Is never spent in vain And though it throb at gentlest touch, Of sorrow's faintest... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 542 pages
...that's truly blest, Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone. The heart — the heart ! oh ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothes "i brother's care Is never spent in vain. And though it throb at gentlest touch, Or sorrow's faintest... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...that's truly blest Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone. The heart — the heart ! oh ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothe's a brother's care Is never spent in vain. And though it throb at gentlest touch, Or sorrow's... | |
 | Edward A. Rice - Gift books - 1853 - 326 pages
...' mercy far and wide, lights the breast/That beats for self a . - lone. The heart—the heart—O! let it spare A sigh for other's pain; The breath that soothes a brother's care Is never spent in vain And though it throb at gentlest touch, Of sorrow's faintest... | |
 | Eliza Cook - English poetry - 1870 - 714 pages
...that's truly blest Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone. The Heart — the Heart ! oh ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothes a brother's care Is never spent in vain. 256 TO THE ROBIN. And though it throb at gentlest touch, Or... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...wherein they rest. William Wordfworth. 1318. FELLOWSHIP, Sympathetic. The heart — the heart ! oh 1 lot ; All els3 beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestowed a brother's care Is never spent in vain. And though it throb at gentlest touch, Or Sorrow's faintest... | |
 | W Kellaway - 1874 - 436 pages
...that's truly blest Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone. The Heart — the Heart ! oh ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothes a brother's care Is never spent in vain. • And though it throb at gentlest touch, Or sorrow's faintest... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Congregational churches - 1877 - 248 pages
...that's truly blest, Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That beats for self alone. The heart— the heart ! Oh ! let it spare A sigh for other's pain ; The breath that soothes a brother's care Is never spent in vain. And though it throbs at gentlest touch, Or sorrow's faintest... | |
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As eagle's nestling wing. Oh ! keep it not, like miser's gold, Shut in from all beside ; But let its precious stores unfold. In mercy, far and wide. The Heart— the Heart that's truly blest Is never all its own ; No ray of glory lights the breast That... 