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" Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath ! Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke... "
The United States Reader: Containing a Variety of Exercises in Reading ... - Page 63
by John D. Post - 1842 - 304 pages
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...aversion, as in ' dread,' ' awe,' and ' horror.' Grave Example. " Oome to the bridal chamber, — Death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first...first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in Consumption's ghastly...
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Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: Being Selected Passages from Lectures and ...

James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...night's repose,— Like flowers at set of sun. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly...
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The Progressive Third Reader: For Public and Private Schools : Containing ...

Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...night's^ repose, Like flowers at set of sun. 4. Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the. mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come, when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; ' Come in consumption's ghastly...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...God, and your native land ! Marco Bozzari* Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...close, Calmly as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun. 6. Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first...first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly...
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The Banker in Literature

Johnson Brigham - Bankers - 1910 - 306 pages
...and your native land!" And then those solemn concluding words : Come to the bridal-chamber, Death ! Come to the mother, when she feels, . For the first...her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly...
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The Banker in Literature

Johnson Brigham - Bankers - 1910 - 354 pages
...green graves of your sires; God — and your native land!" And then those solemn concluding words : For the first time, her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Conic in consumption's ghastly...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...mother's, when she feels, For the <irst time, her first-horn's breath Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities...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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The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of ..., Part 10

Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 578 pages
...close Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Come to the mother, when she feels, For the first...her first-born's breath; Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke; Come in consumption's ghastly...
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A Treasure Chest of Memories

Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1911 - 936 pages
...night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Come to the mother's when she feels For the first time her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke! Come in consumption's ghastly...
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