 | Eleanor Griffiths - 1853 - 384 pages
...dream. CHAPTEK XXVIII. THE SOUL'S MIDNIGHT. " My days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers and fruit 3 of love are gone : The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone." CLABA and her husband left Eithinog the following morning ; and, again at her own mansion, she tried... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. MiasoLONSHi, Jan. 22, 1824. '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.... | |
 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 pages
...turf. The Hector. 'Tis time this heart should be tmmov'd Since others it has ceased to move; Yet, tho' I cannot be beloved, Still let me love! My days are...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!... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 pages
...licentious Byron wrote the following lines: " My days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers and fruit of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone." Near the end of his days, " Paul the aged" wrote to a young minister whom he greatly loved as follows... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1855 - 554 pages
..." 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it has ceased to move ; Yet, though I canot be beloved, Still let me love." " My days are in the...The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone." Such was the harassed state of Lord Byron, at the epoch which seemed to promise him a crowded succession... | |
 | Frances E. Percival - 1856 - 294 pages
...live to sing with the licentious poet, — " My days are as the yellow leaf ; The flowers and fruit of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone." But before sin had stamped its seal upon the heart, or crime had discolored the pages of the daily... | |
 | Edward Norris Kirk - 1856 - 534 pages
...find you there ? Poor Byron exclaims : " My days are in the sere and yellow leaf; The fruit and flower of love are gone. The worm, the canker, and the grief Are left to me alone." Some do not begin to know their spiritual poverty, until they lose their earthly... | |
 | Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Netherlands) - 1905 - 654 pages
...dan is het met een dankbaar gevoel. Had de Lord op zijn 36en jaardag dat akelig mooie vers gemaakt: My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits...The worm, the canker and the grief Are mine alone de 70-jarige BKETS zingt de wijs na op gansch anderen toon : Mijn dagen zijn in 't gele blad; De tijd... | |
 | Eliza Dupe - 1860 - 122 pages
...permitted to see, again he expresses in touching lines his lonely and wretched condition : he writes, 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 volcanic isle ; No torch is kindled at its blaze, A funeral pile. Shortly after... | |
 | Hugh Stowell - 1860 - 146 pages
...completed his thirty-sixth year, fearfully illustrate the wretchedness which resided in his breast.. " My days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers and fruits...canker, and the grief, Are mine alone. " The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle, A funeral pile " The hope, the fear, the jealous care,... | |
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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! 
