 | Abraham Firth - 1886 - 394 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...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,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; atta But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine — Or if it were in winged guise, A visitant...Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive that thought, the while 185 Which made me both to weep and smile ! — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 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 ; LITERARY ANALYSIS.— 257, 258. And they... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 28° But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird, I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...; For — Heaven forgive that thought ! the while 28i Which made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 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...thought, the while Which made me both to weep and smile 1 — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But then at last away... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1890 - 480 pages
...Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 280* But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive that thought ! the whiie 285 Which made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise ; [while For — Heaven forgive that thought ! the 00 than Wag mnrflil — well I knew) For he would never thus have flownJ And left me twice so doubly lone... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 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... | |
 | Frederick Noël Paton - 1894 - 604 pages
...could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant from Paradise ; 2 F For—Heaven forgive that thought! the while Which made me both...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,—... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, *8o 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! ...e while Which made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's... | |
| |
None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink, Had brought me back to feel and think. 
