 | Norman Macleod - 1859 - 564 pages
...weeping ! Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, Ah ! little think they while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death And all the ead variety of pain. One night of watching by a sick-bed reminds us of these forgotten realities. It... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - Bible - 1861 - 294 pages
...affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ! How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame !" Who could bear... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth; And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah 1 little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain: How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...affluence, surround; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain;— How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame;—how many bleed,... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1862 - 348 pages
...licentious crowd, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; ****** Ah ! little think they, as they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.' — THOMSON. THERE was a very heavy shower falling, one cold February afternoon,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ahl little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain : How many aink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround. THOMSON.— Winter, Line 822. Ah 1 little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. THOMSON. — Winter, Line 828. THINKING.— Who can hold a fire in his hand, By... | |
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Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. 
