XXXII. "As I go musing through this mournful land"
Love Sonnets http://www.sonnets.org/love-sonnets.htm (1889)
„May I look on thee when my last hour comes; may I hold thy hand, as I sink, in my dying clasp.“
Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,<br/>Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
— Tibullus poet and writer (0054-0019) -50 - -19 v.Chr
Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,
Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
Bk. 1, no. 1, line 59.
Variant translation: May I be looking at you when my last hour has come, and dying may I hold you with my weakening hand.
Elegies
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
(27th September 1823) Extracts from my Pocket Book. Song
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
— Anna Laetitia Barbauld English author 1743 - 1825
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433.
— Yehuda he-Hasid German philosopher 1140 - 1217
Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
— Edward Bouverie Pusey British saint 1800 - 1882
Used in "Great Souls at Prayer", Edited by Mary W. Tileson, Pubished by J. Bowden, London 1898
Prayers
— Theodore L. Cuyler American minister 1822 - 1909
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 50.
— Yehuda he-Hasid German philosopher 1140 - 1217
Shir Hakovod, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill
— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
By Still Waters (1906)
„Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming,
Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.“
— George Linley British writer 1798 - 1865
Ever of Thee, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
— Solomon king of Israel and the son of David -1011 - -931 v.Chr
I Kings 8:41-43 on the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem
— William Williams Pantycelyn Welsh hymnwriter 1717 - 1791
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 263.
— Christian Scriver German hymnwriter 1629 - 1693
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 100.
— Thomas Malory, buch Le Morte d'Arthur
Book XXI, ch. 9
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
" To Anthea, st. 1 http://www.bartleby.com/106/96.html".
Hesperides (1648)
— Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850
"Recipe to prevent the cold of January from utterly destroying life" (30 January 1841), quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 97.
— George Whitefield English minister and preacher 1714 - 1770
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 518.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet 1792 - 1822
St. 8
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
— Horace Bushnell American theologian 1802 - 1876
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 86.
