| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 str.
...Beneath this tomb an infant lies, To earth whose body lent, Hereafter shall more glorious rise, But not more innocent. When the Archangel's trump shall blow, And souls to bodies join, What crowds shall wish their lives below Had been as short as thine ! We have another measure, very... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 str.
...like thinr. Another. BENEATH a sleeping infant lies; To earth her body's lent ; tlore glorious she'll hereafter rise, Though not more innocent. When the...wish their lives below Had been as short as thine. On Two Twin Sisttn. FAIR marble, tell to future days, That here two virgin-sisters lie, Whose life... | |
| Poetical monitor - 1819 - 168 str.
...• ON AN INFANT. BENEATH, a sleeping infant lies ; To earth, her body's lent : More glorious she'll hereafter rise, Though not more innocent, When the...wish their lives below, Had been as short as thine. IN CHISWICK CHURCH, ON A YOUTH, AGED 15. IF in the morn of life, each winning grace, The converse sweet,... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 str.
...BENEATH a sleeping infant lies, To earth whose body lent ; More glorious shall hereafter rise, But not more innocent, When the archangel's trump shall blow, And souls to bodies join, What crowds shall wish, their lives below BY A GENTLEMAN TO THE MEMORY OF HIS LADY. FAREWELL, my best... | |
| Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 str.
...Beneath a sleeping infant lies, To earth whose body lent ; More glorious shall hereafter rise, And none more innocent : When the Archangel's trump shall blow, And souls to bodies join ; Millions shall wish their lives below Had been as short as thine. II. Happy the babe, who priyiledg'd by fate,... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 str.
...this stone an infant lies, " To earth whose body lent, " Hereafter shall more glorious rise, " But not more innocent. " When the archangel's trump shall blow, " And souls to bodies join, " Thousands shall wish their lives below " Had been as short as thine." On a black marble tablet, inserted... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 str.
...this stone an infant lies, " To earth whose body lent, " Hereafter shall more glorious rise, " But not more innocent. " When the archangel's trump shall blow, " And souls to bodies join, " Thousands shall wish their lives below — " Had been as short as thine." On a black marble tablet,... | |
| 1824 - 588 str.
...where I saw this beautiful epitaph, (at Buxtbrd, in Suffolk) I met with another of a very different When the Archangel's trump shall blow, And souls to bodies join, Millions shall wish their lives below Had been as short as thiue. . I add another, on the same subject; which... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1824 - 294 str.
...these servants of my Lord,'' those, who knew the purity of his life, would often utter mentally,— " When the Archangel's trump shall blow. And souls to bodies join, Millions shall wish their lives below, Had been as pure as thine." His home, which was comfortable, and comprised... | |
| 1827 - 730 str.
...Beneath this stone an infant lies, To earth whose body lent, Hereafter shall more glorious rise, But not more innocent. When the archangel's trump shall blow, And souls to bodies join, What crowds shall wish their lives below Had been as short as thine. — WESLEY. A glance at the two... | |
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