 ... impart : Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove, And, if she can, exhaust a mother's love ! But soon a nobler task demands her care, Apart she joins his little hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there. And now the volume on...  Human Life: A Poem - Page 21by Samuel Rogers - 1819 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English essays - 1819 - 728 pages
...there! And now the volume on her knee has caught [thought, His wandering eye — now many a written Never to die, with many a lisping sweet, His moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeat." Ill a manner equally pleasing are the different stages of life, from the cradle to the grave, delineated;... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...hands in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye — now many a written thought Never...moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeat. Released be chases the bright butterfly ; Oh he would follow — follow through the sky ! Climbs the gaunt mastiff... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! — And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye— now many a written thought Never...lisping sweet His moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeatReleased, he chases the bright butterfly; Oh he would follow — follow through the sky! Climbs... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! — And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye — now many a written thought Never...with many a lisping sweet His moving, murmuring lips endeavor to repeat. Released, he chases the bright butterfly ; Oh he would follow — follow through... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...many a -written thought Never to die, with many a lisping sweet His moving, murmuring lips endeavor to repeat Released, he chases the bright butterfly...follow — follow through the sky ! Climbs the gaunt Timsiili' »lumbering in his chain, And chides and buffets, clinging by the mane ; Then runs, and,... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...hands in prayer Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye — now many a written thought Never...sweet His moving, murmuring lips endeavour to repeat. Releas'd, he chases the bright butterfly ; Oh he would follow — follow through the sky ! Climbs the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 pages
...Him who sees in secret there!— And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye—now many a written thought Never to die, with many a lisping...Released, he chases the bright butterfly; Oh he would follow—follow through the sky! Climbs the gaunt mastiff slumbering in his chain, And chides and buffets,... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...in secret there. And now the volume on her knee has caught - •<•• • His wandering eye—now many a written thought, Never to die, with many a...sweet, His moving murmuring lips endeavour to repeat. lleloas'd, he1 chases the bright butterfly ;• Oft he would follow — follow through the sky ! •... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! — And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye — now many a written thought Never...with many a lisping sweet His moving, murmuring lips endeavor to repeat Released, he chases the bright butterfly ; Oh he would follow — follow through... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...in prayer, Telling of Him who sees in secret there ! — And now the volume on her knee has caught His wandering eye — now many a written thought Never...repeat. Released, he chases the bright butterfly, O he would follow — follow through the sky ! Climbs the gaunt mastiff slumbering in his chain, And... | |
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