 Oh, how, or by what means, may I contrive To bring the hour that brings thee back more near ? How may I teach my drooping hope to live Until that blessed time, and thou art here...  Poems - Page 135by Fanny Kemble - 1844 - 152 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1844 - 288 pages
...some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day } Shall love for thee lay on my soul the *in Of casting from me God's great gift of time ; Shall I these mists of memory locked within, Leave, and forget, life's purposes .sublime i Oh ! how, or by what means, may I contrive... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...that sweet time of grace? Shall I in slumber steep each weary sense, Weary with longing ? — shall I flee away Into past days, and with some fond pretence...great gift of time ; Shall I, these mists of memory locked within, Leave, and forget, life's purposes sublime ? Oh ! how, or by what means, may I contrive... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...past days, and with some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day ? Shall love for thec lay on my soul the sin Of casting from me God's great gift of time ; Shall I, these mists of memory locked within, Leave, and forget, life's purposes sublime ? Oh ! how, or by what means, may I contrive... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1858 - 420 pages
...past days, and with some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day? Shall love for thoe lay on my soul the sin Of casting from me God's great gift of time 1 Shall I these mists of memory lock'd within, Leave, and forget, life's purposes sublime ? Oh ! how,... | |
 | 1859 - 534 pages
...shall I flee away Into past days, and with some fond pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day 7 Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of casting...great gift of time ; Shall I, these mists of memory locked within, Leave, and forget life's purposes sublime ? Oh ! how, or by what means, may I contrive... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1859 - 614 pages
...fleeaway Into past days, and with some fond pretence, Cheat myself to forget the present day ? Shalt love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of casting from...great gift of time : Shall I these mists of memory locked within, Leave, and forget life's purposes soblime ? Oh ! how, or by what means may I contrive... | |
 | 1861 - 972 pages
...CLXX. VOL. XXIX.] [FEBRUART, i88i. A MAIDEN OF OUE OWN DAY. HV FLORENCE WII.FORD. CHAPTER XVIII. " Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of casting...great gift of time ? Shall I, these mists of memory locked within, Leave and forget life's purposes sublime ? * * " * * * " I will this dreary blank of... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pages
...pretence Cheat myself to forget the present day ! Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of easting from me God's great gift of time ? Shall I, these mists of memory locked within, Leave and forget life's purposes sublime ? O> how, or by what means, may I contrive... | |
 | Florence Wilford - 1862 - 582 pages
...morning sunlight streamed in upon what seemed a child's face in its restful look. CHAPTER XVIII. " Shall love for thee lay on my soul the sin Of casting...great gift of time ? Shall I, these mists of memory locked within, Leave and forget life's purposes sublime ? ***** " I will this dreary blank of absence... | |
 | 1863 - 220 pages
...that sweet time of grace ? Shall I in slumber steep each weary sense, Weary with longing ? — Shall I flee away Into past days, and with some fond pretence...within, Leave, and forget life's purposes sublime I O how, or by what means, may I contrive To bring the hour that brings thee back more near ? 138 Absence.... | |
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