 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 pages
...avert A reptile's subtlety. Cain. Of that I doubt; But bless him ne'er the less. IV. SATIRIC. FAME. OH, 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? 'T is but as a dead-flower with May-dew... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 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.... | |
 | 1893 - 262 pages
...virgin pride ; And so I won my Genevieve, My bright and beauteous Bride. ST COLERIDGE. ALL FOR LOVE. O 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... | |
 | 1893 - 260 pages
...merry peals shall swell the breeze And point with taper spire to Heaven. S. ROGERS. ALL FOR LOVE. O 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 a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled... | |
 | John Milton - 1893 - 128 pages
...poets. " Doctarurn. hederse praemia frontium " (ivy that wreathes the brow of bards). — Horace. " The myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels though never so plenty." Byron. 3. Harsh and Crude. Alluding to the immaturity of Milton's poetic genius as... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 248 pages
...were hardly misleading to sign the name of Thomas Moore after these verses, for example : — ' O, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days...two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though never so plenty.' The honeyed smoothness of Moore's melodies does not now fascinate the ear accustomed... | |
 | 1908 - 442 pages
...office have cause in due time to bless — and hear Alma Mater bless — the day they were born : " Oh talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days...days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty." TRAINING IN PUBLIC SPEAKING. BY... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1894 - 250 pages
...chastened style a more comfortable thing than impassioned prose and pages of bravura^ still, after all, ' the days of our youth are the days of our glory,' and for a reader who is both young and eager the Selections Grave and Gay of Thomas de Quincey will always... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...created been T' undo, or be undone. STANZAS. WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Lord Byron. 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.... | |
 | Elinor Mead Buckingham - 1897 - 356 pages
...best idea of his mastery of the satiric vein. STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA.1 Oh, 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? 'T is 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. 
