 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 pages
...think. I know not if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; But knowing well captivity, Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise;...Which made me both to weep and smile! — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...mine ; But knowing well captivity. Sweet bird, I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in wingSd guise, A visitant from Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive...Which made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes dcem'd that it might be My brother's soul come down to me : But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...free, Or broke its eage to pereh on mine, But knowing well eaptivity, Sweet bird ! I eould not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...; For — Heaven forgive that thought ! the while Whieh made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes deem'd that it might bo My brother's soul eome down... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pages
...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, A visitant...Which made me both to weep and smile ! — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; 285 LITERARY ANALYSIS.— 257, 258. And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...winged guise, A visitant from paradise For—Heaven forgive that thought! the while Which made me ooth l cast On Harold's page, lanthe "s here enshrined...forgotten last: My days once number'd, should this 't was mortal well I knew, For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone,—... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 pages
...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, A visitant...Which made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me. But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, 280 Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...forgive that thought ! the while Which made me both weep and smile — 285 I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1884 - 564 pages
...For—Heaven forgive that thought! the while 285 Which made me both to weep and smile—• I sometimes dcem'd that it might be My brother's soul come down to me; But then at last away it flew, And then 'twas mortal—well I knew, 290 For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone,—... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 284 pages
...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, A visitant...down to me ; But then at last away it flew, And then 't was mortal well I knew, For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone, Lone... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...forgive that thought! the while 28S Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 2$o But knowing well captivity, 2(K) For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone,— Lone—as the corse within... | |
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None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think. 
