 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo :— " Alas! my noble boy! that thou should'st die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy Absalom ! "Cold is thy brow, my sou ! and... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...EXERCISES, &C. LESSON 30. David's lamentation over the dead body of Absalom. I. "Alas! my noble son, that thou should'st die! Thou who wert made so beautifully fair! That death should settle in the glorious eye, And leave his stillness in this clust'ring hair! How could he mark thee for the silent... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...features of his child, He bow'd his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo. ' Alas! my noble boy, that thou shouldst die! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom ! ' Cold is thy brow, my son! and... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : — " Alas ! my noble boy! that thou should'st die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy Absalom ! " Cold is thy brow, my son ! and... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo. ' Alas ! my noble boy, that thou shoaldst die ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair! That...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom ! ' Cold is thy brow, my son !... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...; he glanced He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo : — ' Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom ! ' Cold is thy brow, my son !... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...of his child, He bowed his head upon him, and broke forth In the resistless eloquence of wo: — ' Alas ! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy, Absalom! ' Cold is thy brow, my son! and... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...In the resistless eloquence of wo :— , ,-< f „*' Alas ! my noble hoy ! that thou should'st die t Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair ! ; That death...eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, My proud boy Absalom ! .,>'""* " Cold is thy brow, my son... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...and broke forth The pall from the still features of his child, In the resistless eloquence of wo:— Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair! That death should settle in thy glorious eye, ' Alas! my noble boy! that thou shouldst die! And leave his stillness in this clustering hair! How... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...for rest, Canst smooth the feathers on thy breast, And drop, forgetful, to thy nest. FROM "ABSALOM." "Alas! my noble boy! that thou shouldst die! Thou,...eye, And leave his stillness In this clustering hair! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb? My proud boy, Absalom! " Cold is thy brow, my son ! and... | |
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Alas! my noble boy ! that thou shouldst die ! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair ! That death should settle in thy glorious eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair ! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb ! My proud boy, Absalom... 
