 Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but...  Typographical Journal - Page 311905Full view - About this book
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pages
...Through pleasant nnd through cloudy weather : Tis hard to [art when friends are dear; Perhaps 'twill cust a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not (iood Night, but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning. Happy are those who can seriously feel... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...pleasant and through cloudy weather : 'Tis hard to | art when friends are dear ; Perhaps 'twill oust a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not (iood Night, but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning. Happy are those who can seriously feel... | |
 | 1869 - 1500 pages
...than this, the lines merit quotation, but they merit it also because they are really beautiful : — " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather : 'Tis hiird to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear: Tuen steal away, give little... | |
 | John Milton Putnam - 1871 - 354 pages
...is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness." — PEOV. xvi. 31. T IFE ! We have been long together, •*— ' Through pleasant and...give little warning ; Choose thine own time ; Say not Good-night ; but in some brighter clime Bid me Good-morning ! " Yea, though I walk through the valley... | |
 | 1871 - 400 pages
...give his recitation the effect of deep feeling. They were written by Mrs. Barbauld in her old age. " LIFE ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh or tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not good night ; but in... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1871 - 306 pages
...lent to him by a friend particularly pleased him, and he transferred them to his note-book : — " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and...when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh or tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not Good night, but in some... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 370 pages
...what Mrs. Barbauld wished for, in that apostrophe to life which Wordsworth desired to have written : Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine...Night, but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning. VOL. III. B I will make no attempt to describe his daughter's passionate grief. All her love was concentrated... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'T is hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good-Night, but in some brighter clime Bid me Good-Morning. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD. PALMS OF GLORY.... | |
 | 1874 - 780 pages
...stale them ? And she who wrote them, wrote not a little worthy to be remembered along with them: " Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and...through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends arc dear, — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine... | |
 | 1872 - 784 pages
...gentle dismissal. In view of advancing years, it has been sweetly sung by an English poetess — " Life ! we've been long together. Through pleasant...through cloudy weather. Tis hard to part when friends arc dear ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own... | |
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