 Should be dispenst with freer hand, Than all their stores and .treasures rife— Is not for them to understand: To give the stranger's children bread, Of your precarious board the spoil— To watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And, sleepless, meet the...  Poetry for the People: And Other Poems - Seite 55von Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton), Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton - 1840 - 200 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 Seiten
...spoil ;— To watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And, sleepless, meet the morrow's toil ;— The gifts, not proffered once alone, The daily sacrifice...precious gifts of love and tears ! What record of chivalrous deed, What virtue pompously unfurl'd, Can /Aus refute the gloomy creed That parts from God... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1844 - 306 Seiten
...spoil — To watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And, sleepless, meet the morrow's toil ; — The gifts, not proffered once alone, The daily sacrifice...triumphant deed, What virtue pompously unfurled, Can thug refute the gloomy creed That parts from God our living world ? O Misanthrope ! deny who would... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1844 - 300 Seiten
...spoil — To watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And, sleepless, meet the morrow's toil ; — The gifts, not proffered once alone, The daily sacrifice...triumphant deed, What virtue pompously unfurled, Can thu» refute the gloomy creed That parts from God our living world ? O Misanthrope ! deny who would... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...your helpless neighbour's bed, And sleepless meet the morrow's toil ; — The gifts, not proifer'd once alone, The daily sacrifice of years, — And...give is gone, The precious gifts of love and tears ! ***** Therefore, lament not, honest soul ! That Providence holds back from thee The means thou might'st... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1846 - 320 Seiten
...the spoil — To watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And, sleepless, meet the morrow's toil; — The gifts, not proffered once alone, The daily sacrifice...— And, when all else to give is gone, The precious gifls of love and tears ! What record of triumphant deed, What virtue pompously unfurled, Can thus... | |
 | 1847 - 488 Seiten
...honor, he sits a king on the circle of the world ; sin crouches subdued and ashamed at his feet. " O misanthrope ! deny who would — O moralists! deny...impossible good. Deep in the deepest life of man*' We are constrained to indicate briefly one other aspect of this subject. It is one of the plainest... | |
 | 1851 - 496 Seiten
...watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And sleepless meet the morrow's toil ; The gifts, not proffer'd once alone, The daily sacrifice of years, — •...give is gone, The precious gifts of love and tears ! Therefore, lament not, honest soul! That Providence holds back from thee The means thou might'st... | |
 | 1852 - 784 Seiten
...spoil — To watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And, sleepless, meet the morrow's toil ; — The gifts, not proffered once alone, The daily sacrifice...triumphant deed, What virtue pompously unfurled, Can Лиг refute the gloomy creed That parts from God our living world ? О Misanthrope 1 deny who would—... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 Seiten
...board the spoil, To watch your helpless neighbour's bed, And sleepless meet the morrow's toil ; The gifts, not proffered once alone, The daily sacrifice...give is gone, The precious gifts of love and tears ! Therefore, lament not, honest soul ! That Providence holds back from thee The means thou might'st... | |
 | Agnes Maynard (fict.name.) - 1853 - 336 Seiten
...their neighbours, can never be fully appreciated by us who have never suffered their privations. " The gifts not proffered once alone, The daily sacrifice...give is gone, The precious gifts of love and tears." * But money is not our most precious gift; * Monckton Milnes' Poems. think how we may deny ourselves... | |
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