 This frail and feverish being of an hour, Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that...  Pamphlets: Education. English. 1810-1906] - Page 261835Full view - About this book
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1864 - 482 pages
...all the agonies of despair under this dark and blighting destiny, we may exclaim, with the same poet, "Melt, ye elements, that formed in vain, This troubled...; And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb." Against such a dark and cheerless conclusion all within and all around us utter their solemn and impressive... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1864 - 476 pages
...all the agonies of despair under this dark and blighting destiny, we may exclaim, with the same poet, "Melt, ye elements, that formed in vain, This troubled...doom; And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb." Against such a dark and cheerless conclusion all within and all around us utter their solemn and impressive... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1864 - 154 pages
...on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, — since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 682 pages
...the deep ; To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled pulse and visionary brain ; Pade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom ! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! " But... | |
 | 1866 - 524 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that fonn'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain !...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, — since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1866 - 468 pages
...this dark and blighting destiny, we may exclaim, with the same poet, "Melt, ye elements, that foi*med in vain, This troubled pulse and visionary brain!...doom; And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb." Against such a dark and cheerless conclusion all within and all around us utter their solemn and impressive... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1866 - 506 pages
...her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain !...doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, — since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How... | |
 | 1866 - 492 pages
...ou the deep, To know delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while ; Then melt, ye elements ! that formed in vain This troubled pulse and visionary brain ! Truth, ever lovely — since the world began The foe of tyrants and the friend of man — How can... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1867 - 338 pages
...the deep ; To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled...doom ! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! " But with the consciousness of immortality, with a certain knowledge of the Infinite Perfection... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...deep. To know Djelight hut by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep, a little while ; — Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary bruin ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom ! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb... | |
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