| Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 414 pages
...whose very agony is often soothed by remembrances, which might, by some, be thought to increase it. " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd, So often fills his arms, so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...whose very agony is often soothed by remembrances, which might, by some, be thought to increase it. " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd, So often fills his arms, so often draws Mis lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...liberal hands effuse Unenvied treasures, and the snowy wings Of Innocence and Love protect the scene * Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved So often...silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? Oh ! he will tell thee that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...FROM BOOK n. All the natural passions, grief, pity, and indignation, partake of a pleasing sensation. ASK the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom...silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ! 0! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred... | |
| Friendship - 1841 - 360 pages
...passion, swelling with distress and pain, To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn of her whom...silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? O ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred... | |
| Friendship - 1841 - 358 pages
...passion, swelling with distress and pain, To mitigate the sharp, with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure V Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved So often fills his arras ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1841 - 538 pages
...toe field of hattle to tender love and to .Leonora, the object of his fond solicitude. CHAPTER VI. ' Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he loTed, Draws Ins lonely fooutepa, at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears."—... | |
| 1843 - 350 pages
...they hang, Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd. Akenside. LUXURY OF GRIEF AND PITY. ASK the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her, whom...often fills his arms, — so often draws His lonely steps, silent and unseen, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? Oh ! he will tell thee, that the... | |
| Mark Akenside - Poetry - 1845 - 364 pages
...gentleness together, and how sweet Their force, let Fortune's wayward hand the while l?e kind or cruel ? Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn, of her whom long he lov'd, So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen, To pay the... | |
| Thomas Brown, David Welsh - Philosophy - 1846 - 584 pages
...gentleness together, and how sweet Their force, let Fortune's wayward hand the while Be kind or cruel ? Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom...fills his arms, so often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? O ! he will tell thee, that the wealth... | |
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