 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd; Short in my duty; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...resource ? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrong'd; Short in.my duty; coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what... | |
 | William Berrian - 1821 - 410 pages
...resource .' " With pious sacrilege a grave I stole; " With impious piety that grave I wrongM; ** Short in my duty, coward in my grief! " More like her murderer...suspended step : and muffled deep " In midnight darkness whispered my last sigh." The body rests under an arch in the botanical garden. The fiends of the French... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...in my duty ! coward in my grief1. More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper' d what should echo through their realms; Nor writ her name, whose tomb should pierce the skies.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...resource? With pious sacrilege a grave 1 stole; With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer than friend, I crept With soft-suspended step, and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd what... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 318 pages
...spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. 170 With impious piety that grave I wrong'd ; Short in my duty, coward in my grief ! More like her murderer than friend, I crept 175 "With soft-suspended step, and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh. I whisper'd... | |
 | 1826 - 596 pages
...compelled the weeping poet, under the darkness of night, in this lonely retirement to "steal a grave"— " More like her murderer than friend, I crept, With soft suspended step ; and mufflM deep In midnight darkness, whisper'd my last sigh." Some time ago, an English comedian on his... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 550 pages
...readers : " With pious sacrilege a grave I stole ; With impious piety that grave I wronged ; Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer...suspended step ; and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whispered my last sigh — Whispered what should or.ho through their realms, Nor writ her name, whose... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 544 pages
...readers : " With pious sacrilege a grave I stole ; With impious piety that grave I wronged ; Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like her murderer...suspended step ; and, muffled deep In midnight darkness, whispered my last sigh — Whispered what should echo through their realms, Nor writ her name, whose... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...resource? With pious sacrilege, a grave I stole ; With impious piety, that grave I wrongM; Short in my duty ! coward in my grief! More like her murderer, than friend, I crept, With soft-suspended step, and muffled deep In midnight darkness, ivhisper*d my last sigh. I u'hisper'd what... | |
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Denied the charity of dust to spread O'er dust ! a charity their dogs enjoy. What could I do ? what succour ? what resource ? With pious sacrilege a grave I stole , With impious piety that grave I wrong'd : Short in my duty, coward in my grief! More like... 
