 Long-ago. On that deep-retiring shore Frequent pearls of beauty lie, Where the passion-waves of yore Fiercely beat and mounted high : Sorrows that are sorrows still Lose the bitter taste of woe ; Nothing's altogether ill In the griefs of Long-ago. Tombs...  Poems of Many Years - Seite 117von Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1844 - 275 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1838 - 884 Seiten
...Wake the sleep of Long-ago 1 " Tho' the doom of swift decay Shocks the soul where life is strong, Tho' for frailer hearts the day Lingers sad and overlong,...slow, While the Future has its Heaven, And the Past iu JLoog-agg." A green old age is the most loving season of life, for almost all other passions are... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1838 - 238 Seiten
...Wake the sleep of Long-ago ! Tho' the doom of swift decay Shocks the soul where life is strong, Tho' for frailer hearts the day Lingers sad and overlong,...a far diviner influence, Submitting to inscrutable control The finest elements of human soul ; O mystic Sound ! what heart can keep aloof, If summoned... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 Seiten
...Wake the sleep of Long-ago! "Tho1 the doom of swift decay Shocks the soul where life is strong, Tho' for frailer hearts the day Lingers sad and overlong,...Future has its Heaven, And the past its Long-ago." A green old age is the most loving season of life, foi almost all other passions are then dead or dying,... | |
 | 1838 - 876 Seiten
...Wake the sleep of Long-ago. " Tho' the doom of swift decay Shocks the soul where life is strong, Tho' for frailer hearts the day Lingers sad and overlong...Future has its Heaven, And the Past its Long-ago. season of life, for almost all other passions are then dead or dying, or the mind, no moro at the mercy... | |
 | William Huffington - 1839 - 500 Seiten
...Wake the sleep of Long-ago! "Tho' the doom of swift decay Shocks the soul where life is strong* Tho' for frailer hearts the day Lingers sad and overlong,...Future has its Heaven, And the past its Long-ago." SUBTERRANEAN FOREST. An immense subterranean forest, of which even tradition preserves no account,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 Seiten
...of yore Fiercely beat and mounted high : Sorrows that arc sorrows still Lose the bitter taste of wo; Nothing's altogether ill In the griefs of Long-ago....Future has its Heaven, And the Past its Long-ago." The melodious rhythm of the stanzas we next quote, dispensing with the sweet accessaries of rhyme,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 Seiten
...Wake the sleep of Long-ago! " Tho' the doom of swift decay Shocks the soul where life is strong, Tho' for frailer hearts the day Lingers sad and overlong,—...future has its heaven, And the past its Long-ago." A green old age is the most loving season of life, for almost all other passions are then dead or dying,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 Seiten
...hearts the day Lingers sad and overlong, — Still the weight will find a leaven, Still the spoiter's hand is slow, While the future has its heaven, And the past its Long-ago." A green old age is the most loving season of life, for almost all other passions are then dead or dying,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...of woe ; Nothing's altogether ill In the griefs of long-ago. Ill Tomba where lonely love repine«, Ghastly tenements of tears, Wear the look of happy...future has its heaven, And the past its long-ago. PRINCE EMILIUS OF HESSEN-DARMSTADT. FROM Hessen-Darmstadt every step To Moskwa's blazing banks, Was... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...burns no longer, leaves Ashes of impure desire On the altars it deceives ; But the light that nils the past Sheds a still diviner glow, Ever farther...future has its heaven, And the past its long-ago. PRINCE EMILIUS OF HESSEN-DARMSTADT. FROM Hessen-Darmstadt every step To Moskwa's blazing banks, Was... | |
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