 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pages
...Nature, cease thy 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!... | |
 | John Dobell - 1810 - 540 pages
...cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper, angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ;" What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals...? Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soui, can this be dt-ath ? 3 The world recedes, it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes... .my ears... | |
 | John Dobell - Hymns, English - 1810 - 538 pages
...cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. 2 Hark ! they whisper, angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ;" What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight r Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death I 3 The world recedes, it... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...Nature, cease thy 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 -.• • lii, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? The world... | |
 | E. J. Jones - Hymns, English - 1812 - 136 pages
...nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark, they whisper! angels say, " Sister spirit, come away :" What is this absorbs me quite, Steals...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 : Lend,... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...cease thy 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 ? TeU me, my soul, can this be death * The world recedes, it disappears :... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Hymns - 1812 - 980 pages
...thy strife, And let me'languish into life ! 3 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 7 — Tell me, my soul ! can this be death? 3 The world recedes ! — it disappears... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...thy strife, 5 And let me languish into life ! II. Hark ! they whisper ; Angels say, Sister Spirit, 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 ? III. The world recedes... | |
 | Piomingo - American essays - 1813 - 330 pages
...minute for all the barbarians in the universe. My whole frame trembles with the in.te.nsity of desire. The world recedes; it disappears Heaven opens on my eyes. My ears With sounds seraphic ring —— SOCIETY. THAT, man was not designed by nature for a solitaryanimal appears from that instinctive... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...likeness of his Lord, put on by an obedient life. Thus he has realized the description of the poet — " The world recedes, it disappears, Heaven opens on my eyes, my ears With sounds seraphic ring. Lend, lend, your wings, I mount, 1 fly ! 0 grave, where is thy victory? 0 death, where is thy sting... | |
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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. 
