| 1890 - 470 lehte
...And when I at last must throw off this frail cov'ring Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring,...thread-bare Today, May become Everlasting Tomorrow. /. Collins CXCVIII Life ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And when,... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 lehte
...Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering. Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again; But my face...threadbare to-day, May become Everlasting To-morrow. ccxciv. A WISH MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook,... | |
| Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 lehte
...When I've worn it three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again : But my face...threadbare To-day, May become everlasting — To-morrow ! THE MAN THAT IS HAPPY WILL NEVER GROW OLD. Samuel Sleer No doubt there are many who'll say I am wrong,... | |
| John Churton Collins - 1896 - 504 lehte
...And when I at last must throw off this frail cov'ring, Which I've worn for three score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring...threadbare To-day, May become everlasting To-morrow. j. COLLINS. ccu DEATH IN LIFE As those we love decay, we die in part, Tie after tie is sever'd from... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1897 - 410 lehte
...And when I at last must throw off this frail cov'ring Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring,...serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and farrow ; As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare Today, May become Everlasting Tomorrow. /.... | |
| Oliver Ayer Roberts - 1897 - 590 lehte
...I 've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seem to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again; But my face in the glass I '11 serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow; As this old worn-out stuff which... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 lehte
...And when I at last must throw off this frail cov'ring Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring,...threadbare To-day, May become Everlasting To-morrow. John Collins I WISH I WERE BY THAT DIM LAKE I wish I were by that dim Lake, Where sinful souls their... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 lehte
...Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering. As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. JOHN CoLtrNS.... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 lehte
...And when I at last must throw off this frail cov'ring Which I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hov'ring,...threadbare Today, May become Everlasting Tomorrow. /. Collins Life ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And when, or how,... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1903 - 190 lehte
...sorrow, With my friends may I share what Today may afford, And let them spread the table Tomorrow. But. my face in the glass I'll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; 30 As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare Today, May become Everlasting Tomorrow. J. Collins... | |
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