 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
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...Ajid not unseen, though a spirit, dost look down upon us from the stars." TO LIFE. BY MRS. BARBAULD. Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...hard to part, when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cause a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not good night,... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...unseen, though a spirit, dost look down upon us from the stars. TO LIFE. BY MRS.-BARBADLD. Life ! wejve been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...hard to part, when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cause a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not good night,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...make Mrs. Barbauld in her old age look upon death with calm, in the following beautifal lines— " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. 'Tis hard to part v.hen friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose... | |
 | 1902 - 664 pages
...poem on ' Life ' by Mrs. Barbauld ? Who was Mrs. Barbauld t The last two lines of this poem run :— Say not " Good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me " Good morning." GEORGE SHELDON. [You will presumably find the poem in question in ' Works of AL Barbauld,' 1825. We... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...deep feeling. " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. "Tig hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill...thine own time ; Say not good night, but, in some happier clime, Bid me good morning." It makes the thought of Death cheerful to represent it thus, as... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...Through pleasant and through cloudy weather: 'T in hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps Ч will cost a sigh, a tear : Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not good-night, but, in sonic happier clime. Bid mo good morning.' RIGHT well pleased shall we be to hear... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1852 - 393 pages
...dismissal. In view of advancing years it has been sweetly and cheerfully sung by an English poetess :—f " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...Choose thine own time ; Say not good night, but in some happier clime, Bid me good morning." And the boon has oft been vouchsafed to the mature and Simeon-like... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pages
...enough of tremulousness in that grave voice of his, to give his recitation the effect of deep feeling. " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...thine own time ; Say not good night, but, in some happier clime, Bid me good morning." It makes the thought of Death cheerful to represent it thus, as... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1853 - 400 pages
...In view of advancing years it has been sweetly and cheerfully sung by an English poetess : — f " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...Choose thine own time ; Say not good night, but in some happier clime, Bid me good morning." And the boon has oft been vouchsafed to the mature and Simeon-like... | |
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