 O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But, Oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn...  The poetical works of Robert Burns - Page 160by Robert Burns - 1814 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...man Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! " O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest...wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasure torn ; But O, a blest relief to those That weary- laden mourn ! " DESPONDENCY OPPRESSED with grief, oppressed... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - Scotland - 1892 - 322 pages
...honest man, Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn! O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest...The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasures torn ; But, oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! ADDRESS TO THE DEIL. O... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...bee, — / Where is my brother gone ? Mrs. H e mans. Oh, Death 1 the poor man's dearest friend— / 60 1 But oh ! a bless'd relief to those / That weary-laden mourn 1 Burnt. Oh, for a lodge in some vast... | |
 | Labor unions - 1900 - 448 pages
...honest, man, Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn! O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest...! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn! France, on December 31, 1898, had 2,361 legally constituted and local unions of wage- workers, with... | |
 | American poetry - 1894 - 360 pages
...honest man Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn! " O death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest...The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, From pomp and pleasures torn ; But O, a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn ! " UNSEEN SPIRITS THE shadows... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - English literature - 1894 - 436 pages
...lordling's slave, By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? " " O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! " The same note of sadness over the woes and wrongs of life is strong in A Winter Night, to some... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1895 - 512 pages
...been born, Had there not been some recompence To comfort those that mourn I O death I the poor man*s dearest friend, The kindest and the best ! Welcome...oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn I1 1 Whatever might be the casual idea that get the poet to work, It It tut too evident that he wrote... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1895 - 768 pages
...as the soul that seeks them. llurdis DEATH — continued. O, Death ! the poor man's dearest frientl, The kindest and the best ! Welcome the hour, my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest ! Sums, Oh, God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 360 pages
...man, Had never, sure, been born, Had there not been some recompense To comfort those that mourn ! " O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest...weary-laden mourn ! " A Prayer, in the Prospect of Death OTHOU unknown, Almighty Cause Of all my hope and fear ! In whose dread presence, ere an hour, Perhaps... | |
 | William Jacks - English poetry - 1896 - 632 pages
...Leid."1 This is poor enough, but, on the other hand, some verses are well rendered, such as the last — "O Death ! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest...! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn." He gives "O Tod, der Armen sichrer Freund, Der liebste, beste du, Willkommen, wenn dem müden Leib... | |
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