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
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pagina’s
...being of an hour: Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, • Swift as the tempest (ravels ing place in the English heart. Another is the Intimations...marvellous outburst of highest poetry, as unexcept form'd in vain This troubled pulse, unil \Niomiry brain! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom.... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1890 - 904 pagina’s
...feverish being of an hour, Vol. 83.] HON. JWH UNDERWOOD. 817 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 To toil and wish and weep a little while ?" No, nothing is the work of chance. The hand of God created... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 468 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 - 1902 - 192 pagina’s
...inexorable power, This frail and feverish being of an hour ; 460 Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep,...while ; Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain 465 This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom, And sink,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1904 - 316 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,... | |
| Robert Raikes Raymond - 1906 - 208 pagina’s
...! I trust not the tale. Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites ! Stand ! the ground's your own, my braves ! Then melt, ye elements ! that formed in vain This...pulse and visionary brain ; Fade, ye wild flowers I memorial of my doom ; And sink, ye stars ! that light me to the tomb ! Compellatives with Falling... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1910 - 720 pagina’s
...inexorable power 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,...memorials of my doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me tc the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, — since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of... | |
| William John Courthope - 1913 - 506 pagina’s
...inexorable power, 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, Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain This troubled pulse and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 462 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,... | |
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