 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 5240 páginas
...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,...this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heav'n opens on my eyes ! iny oars With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I... | |
 | John Reed - 1997 - 510 páginas
...say, elsewhere. The poem is a kind of secular version of Pope's poem which Schubert set in Verklarung: 'The world recedes, it disappears/ Heaven opens on my eyes, my ears/ With sounds seraphic ring.' But what worlds away from the conventional piety of that earlier (1813) song is the rhapsodic afflatus... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 2000 - 512 páginas
...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...sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? Sonnet XIV -*•> JOHN MILTON On... | |
 | 1984 - 266 páginas
...Christian, I can fancy that he will say: Hark! they whisper: angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite— Steals my senses— shuts my sight— Drowns my spirit— draws my breath? Tell me, my soul, can this be death? We know not when he is dying. One gentle... | |
 | 1902
...fell and his tail dropped low, And this is true, as the records show. — LUCY EL TAYLOR. IN MEMORIAM "The world recedes — it disappears! Heaven opens...sounds seraphic ring. Lend, lend your wings! I mount, I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?" MRS. EDITH F. HALL PERRY, charter... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 544 páginas
...me languish into life. THE CYCLES Hark! they whisper; Angels say, OF LIFE Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts...sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting? ALEXANDER POPE ENGLISH (1688-1744)... | |
 | Sidonie A. Smith, Julia Watson, Sidonie Smith - 2006 - 472 páginas
...loved to repeat to myself the words, — Hark! they whisper: angels say, "Sister spirit, come away!"— The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring. A hymn that I learned a little later expressed to me the same satisfying thought: — For strangers... | |
 | ...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 Spirit, draws my breath! Tell me, my Soul! can this be death? The world recedes - it disappears; Heaven... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - 2007 - 288 páginas
...And let me languish into life ! Hark ! they whisper — -angels say, " Sister spirit, come away 1" What is this absorbs me quite ; Steals my senses,...this be — death ? The world recedes ! it disappears I Heaven opens to my eyes ! — my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount... | |
 | Rick James - 2009
...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...draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul! can this be Death? As the poem doesn't make me nauseated, psychotic or depressed, we can safely assume that the author... | |
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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. 
