| 1863 - 438 páginas
...joy To know I 'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy. T. Hood ccxxv THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS OFT in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has... | |
| 1865 - 408 páginas
...go our gondolets O'er the moonlight sea. OFT, IN THE STILLY NIGHT. (SCOTCH AIR.) OPT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1876 - 548 páginas
...friends lost by death or circumstances. 'Tis then we realise the truth and pathos of the lines : — " Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound...seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, VOL. XXII. K I feel like one who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, whose... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1870 - 552 páginas
...shall be no parting, kept coming into hismind one after another. His mother the first. She — ' ' Oft in the stilly night, ere slumber's chain has bound...dimmed and gone, the cheerful hearts now broken." A man's voice had broken into song right under the window : it was like a burst of melody. Captain... | |
| Words - 1866 - 368 páginas
...fond ones are flown, O ! who would inhabit This bleak world alone 1 Moore. OFT IN THE S.TILLY NIGHT. Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound...Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other... | |
| Henrietta Keddie - 1866 - 332 páginas
...pensive associations ; his favourite song was Moore's " Stilly Night," with its pensive refrain, — " Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me." And I think his favourite verse was that which refers so tenderly to — " The smiles and... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1866 - 86 páginas
...I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn. 4. Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me. 5. Such pains she had That she in half a year was mad, And in a prison housed. 6. Ye know... | |
| Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 páginas
...fairest forms we see, To live with them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary ! REMEMBRANCES. OFT in the stilly night Ere Slumber's chain has bound...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
| Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 páginas
...gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we see, To live with them is far less sweet REMEMBRANCES. OFT in the stilly night Ere Slumber's chain has bound...words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus in the stilly night Ere Slumber's chain has... | |
| J. H. - 1867 - 860 páginas
...art indeed a flower Born but to die. John Kenyan. O1 i76. OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT. | FT in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory...Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood s years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful... | |
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