 Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I, — For yet I lived like one not born to die ; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears, No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 2811851Full view - About this book
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 176 pages
...Sustain our spirits with their roundelays. SONNET IX. LONG time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I ; For yet I...tho' I be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold. I SONNET X. YOUTH, love, and mirth, what are they — but the portion, Wherewith the Prodigal left... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 180 pages
...Sustain our spirits with their roundelays. SONNET IX. LONG time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I ; For yet I...tho' I be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold. SONNET X. YOUTH, love, and mirth, what are they — but the portion, Wherewith the Prodigal left his... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is grey, For I have lost the race I never ran; t A rathe December blights my lagging May ; And still...I be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold.' SONNET xi. ' How long I sailed, and never took a thought To what port I was bound! Secure as sleep,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1852 - 576 pages
...nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is grey, For I have lost the race I never ran ; A rothe December blights my lagging May ; And still I am a child, tho' 1 be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold. Eileen's Prayer. Ballad written by JH Jewell. Composed... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...thought, Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, 1 find my head is grey, Tor I have lost the race 1 never ran; A rathe December blights my lagging May ; And still I am a child, though I he old, Time is my debtor for my years untold. As a critic, he had proved his competency,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1841 - 846 pages
...No hope 1 needed, and 1 knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only sleep, and waking, I wak'd to sleep no more ;— at once o'ertaking The vanguard...December blights my lagging May, And still I am a child ; though I be old, Time is my debtor for my years are told. The Poet's Cottage. (T. Moore's, Sloperton.)... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 382 pages
...prodigal of smiles and tears, No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is ouly sleep, and waking, I waked to sleep no more, at once...rathe December blights my lagging May ; And still T am a child, tho* I be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold." The prose writings of Hartley... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 356 pages
...no more, at once o'ertaking The vanguard of my age, with all arrears Of duty on my back. Nor cbild, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is grey,...I be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold." The prose writings of Hartley Coleridge, — particularly his " Yorkshire Worthies," and his Introduction... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 422 pages
...duty on my back. Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is grey, For I have lost tbe race I never ran, A rathe December blights my lagging...I be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold." The prose writings of Hartley Coleridge, — par-, ticularly his "Yorkshire Worthies," (republished... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 522 pages
...waking, I waked to sleep no more, at once o'ertaking The vanguard of my age, with all arrears Of duty at my back. Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage,...tho' I be old, Time is my debtor for my years untold. Requicscas in pace, tempted and troubled one ! In the rest that knows no troubling, be thine also the... | |
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