 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 34by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...their pain ; Ah, if she look but at these tears They do not fall in vain. Waller S. Landor. CCCVIIL To . Go — you may call it madness, folly, You shall...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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. e. MOOKE -Lalln Rookh. Paradise and the Peri. Go— you may call it madness, folly,— You shall not chase my gloom away; There's such a clinrm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay! /. ROGEBS— To . Oh, if you knew the pensive... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Skaksptre. Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not...charm in melancholy I would not, if I could, be gay. There's naught in this life sweet. If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy J Oh, sweetest Melancholy!... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Dime novels - 1890 - 318 pages
...being something pleasant in melancholy, and I was always repeating the words of the old song — " Go ! You may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my grief away ; There's such a charm in Melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." I'm not sure whether... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. ccxc. TO . Samuel Rogers, Go—you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...oJuM\ Adieu! — Yet still, methinks, you frown on me; Or never could I fly from you. TO 1814. 0 — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away There's such a charm in melaneholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...melancholy. Ibid. Melancholy as a lover's lute. Ibid CHARMS OP. 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 cou.tt, be gay 1 Ah? what is mirth, but turbulence unholy, When with the charm compared of heavenly... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...democracy in your own house. Lvcitrcvs, i<' one who asked ivky he had not instituted л democracy. f Rogen. 10 Gobe-mouches— Л fly-calcher; one easily gulled. Fr. God alone can properly bind up a bleeding... | |
 | John Roy Musick - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1893 - 446 pages
...breathed a fervent prayer. CHAPTEB VII. IN WIDOW'S WEEDS. Go ; you may call it madness, folly ; You may not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. —ROGERS. DOROTHE STEVENS was not a woman to take misfortune much to heart. She watched the ship in... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1895 - 444 pages
...breathed a fervent prayer. CHAPTEE VII. IN WIDOW'S WEEDS. Go ; you may call it madness, folly : You may not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. — ROGERS. DOROTHE STEVENS was not a woman to take misfortune much to heart. She watched the ship... | |
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