 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - Bible - 1823 - 376 pages
...closing eyes, How gently heaves th' expiring breast. 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies the wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor brow, Fann'd by some angel's heavenly... | |
 | James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...closing eyes, How gently heaves the expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer-cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 450 pages
...closing eyes, How gently heaves the' expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Farewell, conflicting joys and fears, Where light and shade alternate... | |
 | 1825 - 260 pages
...closing eyes, How gently heaves the' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys; Nothing... | |
 | James Montgomery - Christian poetry, English - 1826 - 464 pages
...closing eyes, How gently heaves the' expiring breast ! 2 So fades a summer-cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 3 A holy quiet reigns around, A calm which life nor death destroys ; Nothing... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...closing eyesl How gently heaves tli' expiring breast 1 So fades a summer-cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. * Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fann'd by some angel's purple wiug... | |
 | Poetic gleanings - Children's poetry - 1827 - 182 pages
...closing eyes ! How gently heaves th' expiring breast ! So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. * A Greenland fishing-befit. HYMN TO THE MOON. 17 Triumphant smiles the... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...closing eye ! How gently heaves the expiring hreast ! So fades a summer-cloud away : So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. Trinmphant smiles the victor's hrow, Faun'd hy some guardian am;el's wing;... | |
 | Alexander Gunn - Clergy - 1829 - 560 pages
...indeed he went off, as circumstances indicated; and, "So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks a gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore." • The next Sabbath, his remains were committed to the house appointed... | |
 | Sebastian Streeter, Russell Streeter - Hymns, English - 1829 - 426 pages
...closing eyes ! How gently heaves the dying breast ! 8 So fades a summer cloud away ; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; So gently shuts the eye of day ; So dies a wave along the shore. 3 Triumphant smiles the victor's brow, Fanned by some angel's purple wing... | |
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So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er : So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore. 
