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" Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet song and dance and wine, — And thou art terrible; the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know or... "
Janus; or, The Edinburgh literary almanach - Page 155
by Janus - 1826
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, Volume 2

1827 - 496 pages
...crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ncean storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible—the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumptioa's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; — Come when the heart beats...and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, Andthou art terrible: the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream,...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 pages
...pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;— Come when the heart beats high and warm, Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath;— With banquet-song,...
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Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Kettell - 1829 - 432 pages
...pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm, Come to the mother's. when she feels, For the first time, her first horn's breath; With banquet-song,...
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Time's Telescope

1830 - 472 pages
...night's repose, Like flowers at set of snn. Come to the bridal chamber, death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's...storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible: the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall,...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...the first time, her first-b orn's breath ; — i Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats...art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the frail, the heir, * And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery: As Applied to Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 420 pages
.... •• : Come in. consumption's ghastly fonnj/ . The earthquake shock, the ocean storrn ; — • Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet'song, and dance, and wifle, And thou art terrible : the -tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,And all we know,...
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The Religious Souvenir: A Christmas, New Year's and Birth Day Present

1832 - 320 pages
...terrors;' come as he will, we may well say to him, in the words of our gifted countryman, Halleck, — ' Thou art terrible ; the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the hier, And all we know or dream or fear Of agony, are thine.' There is something inconceivably awful...
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The American Orator's Own Book: Or, The Art of Extemporaneous Public ...

1836 - 362 pages
...are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form. The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats...warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine; And thou are terrible— The tear, • The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream or...
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Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Alnwick Castle, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 114 pages
...pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; Come when the heart beats high and warm, And thou art terrible—the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream,...
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