 These check his fearful steps ; and down he sinks Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mix'd with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2971831Full view - About this book
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mixed with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man, His wife, his children, and his friends, unseen. 310 In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment warm; In vain... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 pages
...shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, Mixed with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man — His wife, his children, and-his friends unseen. In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 426 pages
...track. As he sinks helpless into the drift, thoughts of "tender anguish" overtake him. He thinks of His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children,... | |
 | Henry Buckley Charlton - 1924 - 216 pages
...describes the death of a shepherd overcome by a blizzard on the hills ; he goes on — In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and...peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. Children do not " demand their sire " ; they call for their father. The pathos of the real child bereft... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, 86 Mixed with the tender anguish nature shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man — His wife,...children, and his friends, unseen. In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm; 90 In vain his little children,... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 pages
...lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. In vain for him th'officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment...peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 pages
...lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. In vain for him th'officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment...peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire. Thomson, Winter, 311-4. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield. Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1929 - 490 pages
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 | Robert Shafer - 1931 - 774 pages
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