 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...more : It seemed like me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate, And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, • And, cheering...late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise,... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...: It seemed like me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate, And it was come to love, me when None lived to love me so again, And cheering from...late were free, Or broke its cage .to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! 1 could not wish for thine, Or if it were in winged gnise,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 256 pages
...more : It seemed like me to want a mate, But was not half so desolate, And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And, cheering from...to feel and think. I know not if it late were free, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 246 pages
...more: It seemed like me to want a mute, But was not half so desolate, And it was conic to love me when None lived to love me so again, And, cheering from...brought me back to feel and think. I know not if it kte were free, r THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. 57 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird! I could not wish... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 422 pages
...more. It seemed, like me, to want a mate, But was not baif so desolate; And it vas come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And, cheering from...late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for tliine— . Or if it were, in winged... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...seemed, like me, to want a mate, But was not half so desolate ; • And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And, cheering from...brought me back to feel and think. I know not if it lale were free, Or broke its cnge to perch on mine; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...I was the mate of misery ; But then by dull degrees came back My senses to their wonted track ; 260 I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round...captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine 1 Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive that thought 1... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...bird, with azure wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seem'd to say them all for rae ! 270 I never saw its like before, I ne'er shall see...captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine 1 Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive that thought !... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...more. It seemed, like me, to want a mate, But was not half so desolate, And it was come to love me when Out 'twixt the battery-smokes there flew A rider, bound on bound Full-ga Ill-ought me back to feel and think. I know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...It seem'd, like me, to want a mate, But was not half so desolate ; And it was come to love me when re, Who hreathed to destroy — Shadows of heauty! hrink, Had hrought me hack to feel and think. I know not if it late were free, Or hroke its cage to... | |
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But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird! I could not wish for thine! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise; For— Heaven forgive that thought! 
