The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes... Time's Telescope - Page 1591824Full view - About this book
| William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush! hark! . . a -deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear, k?— No; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance ! let joy... | |
| Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes likes a rising kne.ll : Did ye not hear it? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or.thecar rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ; Xo sleep till... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...deep sound slrikes like a rising knell! XXII. Did ye not hear itT — No; Ч was but the wind, Or Ihe car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconuned; No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with Hying feet... | |
| Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...; But hush ! hark ! a deep soond strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear ill— No; 'twas hat the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with the dance! let joy he QD COD fined ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...voluptuous swell Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake And all went merry as a marriage-belt; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! Did ye not hear itl— No; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street ; On with ihe dance! let joy... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell -, Rut hush '. hark '. a deep sound strikes like a rising knell !...the stony street ; On with the dance ! let joy be uncon6ned ; No sleep till morn, when jmiih and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...merry as a marriage-bell ; ' (0) But hush ! hark ! •• a deep sound strikes like a rising knell ! 2 Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind,...with the dance! let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till rnorn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet — (0)But, hark !—... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell ; — ^ut hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell !...the stony street : On with the dance ! let joy be unconfiried ; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Soft eyes looked love, to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriagebell; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell !...o'er the stony street ; On with the dance! let joy be uncon fined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell — 2. But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell — Did ye not hear it 1— No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance ! let joy... | |
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