 | William Ernest Henley - 1897 - 522 pages
...too soon, Yet we 'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon. Byron. 378 O, TALK NOT TO ME 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... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 pages
...men ! " BYRON. English Bards and Scoteh Reviewers. "Oh, no! we never mention her." HAYNES BAYLY. " Oh talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory." BYRON. Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa, I. " Oh that eternal want of pence, Which... | |
 | 1897 - 418 pages
...anything else on earth, yet Byron knew it all, when he said : ' ' Talk not to me of the names of the great in story, The days of our youth are the days of our glory." , Theta Delta Chi above all other fraternities was founded upon this : The Friendship of Men. There... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 112 pages
...Death a Victory. STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE EOAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Written in November, 1821. OH, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. 5 What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? 'T is but as a dead flower with May-dew... | |
 | 1897 - 1040 pages
...myrtle and wreaths to the brow that is wrinkled ? 'Tis like a dead flower with Maydew besprinkled. The myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, however so plenty. Rogers, who was often complimented on being a fine old man, used acidly to reply,... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...wildly fresh without, all worn and grey beneath. And a poem like the one that begins: Oh, talk to me not of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; offered as a poignant utterance of the ageing Byron, is an exhilarating gallop. The strength of Byron,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...that it takes away, EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa 66 Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story — The days of our youth are the days of our glory; (1. 1-2) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2 The Vision of Judgment 67 Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...and genius of Moore ! September, 1821. STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Он, orth Editions two-aridtwenty Are worth all your laurel«, though ever so plenty. What are garlands and crowns to... | |
 | Richard E. Matthews - 1994 - 350 pages
...exalt its action nor dwell on its failings. Only the men who filled its ranks know its true history. "Talk not to me of a name great in story. The days of our youth are the days of our glory. " LORD BYRON "Their conduct was more than heroic. It was glorious. / cannot describe the charges and... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 404 pages
...their different effect on the ear and mind and soul of listeners. Nobody, swinging into Byron's lusty Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory . . . is going to think, "Ah, trisyllabic substitutions for the basic iambs!" No, one is carried away... | |
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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. 
