This frail and feverish being of an hour; Doom'd 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... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Pagina 190geredigeerd door - 1844Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Thomas Campbell - 1803 - 162 pagina’s
...inexorable pow'r! This frail and fev'rish being of an hour, Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep,...weep, a little while; * Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom!... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 182 pagina’s
...inexorable pow'r ! This frail and fev'rish being of an hour, Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep. Swift as the tempest travels on the deep,...weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom-j... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 144 pagina’s
...being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels oti the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while j Then melt, ye elements ! that fofm'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade ye wild... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pagina’s
...; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, 34O To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil,...weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of niy doom,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pagina’s
...inexorable power, This frail and feverish being of an hour; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep,...weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1812 - 160 pagina’s
...inexorable power, This frail and feverish being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep,...weep, a little -while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1817 - 166 pagina’s
...This frail and feverish being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swifs as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight...weep a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom,... | |
| Solomon Piggott - 1824 - 422 pagina’s
...inexorable power, This frail and feverish being of an hour; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep. Swift as the tempest travels on the deep;...weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain '1 his troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my... | |
| Nathan Sidney Smith Beman - 1825 - 48 pagina’s
...not eternal. Wero this the case, we might sing our own dirge in the expressive lines of the poet. " Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain " This...troubled pulse, and visionary brain ; " Fade, ye wild (lowers, memorials of my doom, " And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb." A life of active usefulness... | |
| John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 250 pagina’s
...t'HAF. CHAP. VI. Doom d o'er the world' i precarioui scene to sweep. Swift as the tempest travels to the deep, To know delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and with, and weep a little while. Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom, And smk, ye stars, that... | |
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