 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.  Poems - Page 211by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...mem'ry, when she lingers on Past pleasure, turns it all to grief. From the Spanish — BOWUINQ. Oo, 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 ! ROGERS. CARE -MELANCHOLY -GLOOM.... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 pages
...sort of distinction. Never could I entirely agree with the pensive poet when he exclaims — • " Go ! you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my griefs away, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay." But I can accord with... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...o'er this changing scene As false and fleeting as 'tis f.iir. SAMUEL KOGEIIS. Bom 1763. Died 1855. TO . Go — you may call it madness--, folly ; You...There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I cuuld, be gay. Oh. if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would iiot... | |
 | 1871 - 516 pages
..."love's delicious melancholy ;" and the poet Rogers sings : "Go, you may call It madness — folly— Yon shall not chase my gloom away; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, If I could be gay." ciety by return to a primitive mode of life, in mountain and forest is prompted to this resort by a... | |
 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 1871 - 336 pages
...Certainly / shan't try anything so hopeless as comforting a person who is resolved to be miserable. ' There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could, be gay.' There's a quotation for you, as you like verses — particularly what I call moping verses." " Come,... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pages
...Autumn her apples in thy bosom throws, And Winter clothes thee with her whitest snows. CHERISHED LOVE. Go — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not...in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh 1 if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...roll ; The rising motion of an infant ray Shot glimm'ring through the cloud, and promised day. PRIOR. Go — you may call it madness, folly,— You shall...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay ! ROGERS. Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden... | |
 | American poetry - 1875 - 432 pages
...dwell, O, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! CAPTAIN CHARLES MOERIS. 2.. 5 TO . /""* O — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. O, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...of Drake. * Compare Bacon, Of Adversity ; Goldsmith, The Captivity ; Wordsworth's Prelude, Book ix. Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away I There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. Mine be a cot beside the hill... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 694 pages
...as lyrical effnsions proper. One would be reminded by Fletcher's lyric of Rogers' rather namby-pamby •There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay," were it not that Fletcher's song is in intention dramatic, which Rogers' lines are not 1 Mr. Fleay,... | |
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