? ' Go, —you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not, if I could, be gay. ' Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... The Early Life of Samuel Rogers - Page 356by Peter William Clayden - 1888 - 406 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1806 - 560 pages
...Country, and your God I There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Go—you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my gloom away, Oh ! if you knew the pensive pleasure, That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure,... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 536 pages
...! One dreadful phalanx, Britons, form : Friends to your King, your Country, and your God i Go—you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my gloom away, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh ! if you knew the pensive pleasure,... | |
| Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...paradox of Fortune's reign, The fixt are gone; the unsteady still remain. CHERISHED LOVE. Go—you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my gloom away, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh ! if you knew the pensive pleasure.... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...of Henry the Fourth of France; similar to ours of " The King and Miller of Mansfield." To Go—you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...well-known lines:— Go, you may call it madness—folly, You shall not chase my gloom away, There's such a charm in Melancholy I would not, if I could, be gny ! Oh if you knew the pensive pleasure That nils my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a... | |
| 1822 - 460 pages
...words of the poet, " Go, you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase ray grief away; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." But, although he cannot himself be gay, he wishes not to check the rational gaiety of others. He is... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...related of Henry the Fourth of France; similar to ours of "The King and Miller of Mansfield." To Go—you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure... | |
| Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 374 pages
...language of Rogers— " Go, you may call it madness, folly, You shall not steal away my rest; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be blest. Oh if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of... | |
| Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 394 pages
...language of Rogers— " Go, you may call it madness, folly, You shall not steal away my test; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be blest. Oh if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of... | |
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