 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...  THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL ROGERS - Page 56by EPES SARGENT - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 814 pages
...Yet canst thou without thought or feeling be ? j i O say what art thou, when no more thou'rt thee ? Life ! we Ve been long together, Through pleasant...; '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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé - American poetry - 1832 - 882 pages
...that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me 'sa secret yet. Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy...'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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859
...every night) Mrs. Barbauld's solemn-sweet stanza, composed when she too was very old — Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy..."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... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 288 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...'Tis 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp
...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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1852
...advancing years it has been sweetly and cheerfully sung by an English poetess :—f " 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... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 229 pages
...tremulousness in that grave voice of his, to give his recitation the effect of deep feeling. " 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... | |
 | James Hamilton - Bible - 1853 - 353 pages
...advancing years it has been sweetly and cheerfully sung by an English poetess : — f " 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... | |
 | 1891
...availed of. Send for Prospectus to Dr. Bayard Holmes, Secretary, 240 Wabash Avenue. LIFE. LIFP: ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...'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 "... | |
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