 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...more a roving By the light of the moon. (1817.) STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? 'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 pages
...more a roving By the light of the moon. (1817.) STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled.... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 pages
...Is there a girl or youth under twenty who will not read the following stanzas with pleasure ? — " Oh ! talk not to me of a name great in story — The...days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. " What are garlands and crowns to... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 424 pages
...Is there a girl or youth under twenty who will not read the following stanzas with pleasure ? — " Oh ! talk not to me of a name great in story — The...days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. " What are garlands and crowns to... | |
 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 pages
...too." Afterwards, travelling one day from Florence to Pisa. he composed the verses, commencing : — Oh ! talk not to me of a name great in story, The days of our youth are the days of our glory ; Aud the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, thongh ever so plenty.... | |
 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 pages
...too." Afterwards, travelling one day from Florence to Pisar he composed the verses, commencing : — Oh ! talk not to me of a name great in story, The day* of onr youth are the dkys of our glory ; Ami the myrtle and ivy of aweet two-aud-tweuty Are worth... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 pages
...more a roving By the light of the moon. (1817.) STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? 'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 72 pages
...brows of bards." Doubtless Milton chooses the myrtle as suiting the youth of his friend. Cf. Byron — "The myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though never so plenty." 2 Myrtles brown. 'Dark-coloured.' The "myrtus pulla" of Horace. ' Brown ' is used... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 252 pages
...Grattan,and genius of Moore ! Septembtr 1821. STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. 10s OH, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? Then away with all such from the head that... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...The sigh that rends thy constant heart, Shall break thy Edwin's too." OLIVER GOLDSMM 4. ALL FOR LOVE. TALK not to me of a name great in story ; The days...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? 'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew... | |
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OH, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. 
