 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIxTH YEAR.' 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move ! Yet, though I cannot be beloved,...canker, and the grief Are mine alone ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - 1845 - 510 pages
...THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. Missolonghi, Jan. 22. 1824.f 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move: Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still...canker, and the grief Are mine alone ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze— A funeral pile.... | |
 | 1852 - 672 pages
...destined to see, he thus described, in touching lines, his own lonely and miserable condition : — My days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers and fruits...the grief Are mine alone. The fire that in my bosom plays Is lone as some voleanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze, A funeral pile. The life of... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.a 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move ! Yet, though I cannot be beloved,...love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Arc mine alone ! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some voleanic isle ; No torch is kindled... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...immortality Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real ! ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTYSIXTH YEAR. Tis time this heart should be unmoved Since others it...canker, and the grief Are mine alone. The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile... | |
 | George Peck - 1848 - 498 pages
...has faded from the cheerless heavens, and shame draws the curtain of a solitary night about him. " The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are his alone." But it is in the future state alone that these effects of sin can be fully realized. Here... | |
 | William Sweetser - 1850 - 456 pages
...decline and death. Thus do we find him repining over the loss of his youth at the age of thirty• six. " My days are in the yellow leaf. The flowers and fruits...The worm. the canker. and the grief Are mine alone. • " If thou regrett'st thy youth, why live ? The land of honorable death Is here, up to the field... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1850 - 440 pages
...period of man, already exclaimed, My days are in the yellow leaf, • The flowers, the fruits, of lore are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone — what are these deeply affecting words, but the confession of one, who having spent all, had found... | |
 | William Haig Miller - 1851 - 142 pages
...miserable condition : — " My days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; Ihe worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone. The fire that in my bosom plays Ts lone as some volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze, A funeral pile." The life of... | |
 | David Thomas - 674 pages
...half of the allotted period of human life : — " Jly days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers, the fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone." The deep feeling of want must come on in the history of sin. The soul feels its emptiness, and craves for... | |
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Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move; Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me love! My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! 
