Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans... The Retrospective Review - Page 3641824Full view - About this book
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...flow'rs, Shall once, aye me, not spare that spring of yours. MY lute, be as thou wert when thou did grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When...birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that deare voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious straines to flow, Is reft from... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...flow'rs, Shall once, aye me, not spare that spring of yours. MY lute, be as thou wert when thou did grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When...birds their ramage did on thee bestow. Since that deare voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious straines to flow, Is reft from... | |
| Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...refers to the death of his mistress : — DRUMMOND TO HIS LUTE. My lute, be as thou wert when thou did grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When...harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune the spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe 1 Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more,... | |
| Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...refers to the death of his mistress : — DRUMMOND TO HIS LCTE. My lute, be as thou wort when them did grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When...harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune the spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe 1 Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more,... | |
| Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 338 pages
...lute, be as thou wert when thou did grow With thy green mother in some shady grove, When irmnelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage*...harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune the spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe 7 Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more,... | |
| 1839 - 798 pages
...a sweet sonnet, and exhales the fragrance of Hawthornden : — " My late, be as thou wert when thoa didst grow With thy green mother in some shady grove. When immelodious winds but made thee more, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow ; Since that dear voice, which did thy sounds approve,... | |
| Isabella Steward - 1840 - 938 pages
...her tone of banter, promising to transmit my tender pressure to Miss Philly Horrigan, CHAPTER VIII. " My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some shady grorc — What art thou but a harbinger of woe?" FAREWELL ye sprightly images, ye Vulcan galas —... | |
| A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...gone ; nor gold nor gems can her restore. Neglected virtue, seasons go and come, SONNET ON THE SAME. MY Lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With...mother in some shady grove, When immelodious winds hut made thee move, And birds on thee their ramage did bestow. Sith that dear voioe which did thy sounds... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...; Then go and tell from Gades unto Ind You saw where Earth's perfections were confm'd. To ha Luie. ade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours thec move, * Stilton hue copied this image In his Lycidae— ' Inwrought with figure* dim, and on the... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1845 - 440 pages
...in some shady grove, When immelodious winds but made thee move, And birds their ramage did on thee 3 bestow. Since * that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont 5 in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou... | |
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