 Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need — The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me, — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.  Byron - Page 306by Ethel Colburn Mayne - 1924 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 pages
...or aeeent breathe. 4130 407 Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns whieh I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me,...: I should have known what fruit would spring from suel, a seed. Byron's Childe Harold. There was a. laughing devil in his sneer, That rais'd emotions... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...worthier son than he. " * Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd +G euch a seed. XL The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord ; And, annual marriage now no more renew'd,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 362 pages
...than he." Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorus which I have reap'd are of the tree 1 planted ; they have torn me, and I bleed : I should...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XI. The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord ; And, annual marriage now no more renew'd, The Bucentaur... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1859 - 302 pages
...to in any edition of his works ; take as instances : — " Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted — they have torn me — and I bleed." Childe Harold, iv. 11. " Alas ! the decree of fate is now accomplished, by your own fault it is, the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 pages
...many a worthier son than he." Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted ; they have torn me, and I bleed : 1 should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XI. The spouseless Adriatic mourns... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...ignoble purposes. How applicable are the following lines of the great poet to himself : — "The thorns I planted, they have torn me, and I bleed ; I should...known what fruit would spring from such ' a seed." -Childe Harold. Byron wanted the apathy peculiar to old age, which ie a good substitute for patience;... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 pages
...epitaph or. me — 'Sparta hat'i many a worthier son than he.' Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need; The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted, — they have lorn me, — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such * seed. The spouseless... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 252 pages
...The thi*r.is which I have reap'd are of tne tree I planted, — they have torn me, — and 1 bieed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. XI. The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord ; And, annual marriage, now no more renew'd, The Bucentaur... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...Her snaky crest. Tlu Seasons: Spring. J. THOMSON. The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree 1 planted — they have torn me, and I bleed ; I should...have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. Childe Harold, Cant iv. BVKON. We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague... | |
 | 1912 - 868 pages
...PHYSICIAN TO CRAGMOR AND SUNNYREST SANATORIA, COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. " The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I' planted —they have torn me — and I bleed! I should h^ive known what fruit would spring front such a sffd." — Byron. The public through the lay press... | |
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