| Thomas Moore - Gift books - 1890 - 346 pages
...eve of doomsday taken From their dim graves, in odor sleeping, — While that benevolent Peri beam'd Like their good angel, calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls would wake But morn is blushing in the sky: Again the Peri soars above, Bearing to Heaven that precious sigh... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 534 pages
...the eve of Doomsday taken From their dim graves in odor sleeping; While that benevolent Peri beamed Like their good angel calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls would waken. But morn is blushing in the sky; Again the Peri soars above, Bearing to heaven that precious sigh Of... | |
| English poetry - 1905 - 622 pages
...lips she spread Unearthly breathings through the place, And shook her sparkling wreath, and shed Such lustre o'er each paly face, That like two lovely saints...From their dim graves, in odour sleeping ; While that benevolent Peri beam'd Like their good angel calmly keeping Watch o'er them till their souls would... | |
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