 | English poetry - 1867 - 315 pagina’s
...bush where it grew. 1 hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, 10 And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapp'd...mind, Regardless of wringing and breaking a heart 15 Already to sorrow resign'd. "This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have hloom'd with its... | |
 | Augustus Layres - 1867
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapped it ; it fell to the ground. And such, 1 exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind,...of wringing and breaking a heart Already to sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner awhile ; Thus... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1868
...then comes the moral — just such a one as Cowper only could have drawn : — "And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part, Some act, by the delicate mind,...of wringing and breaking a heart, Already to sorrow inclin'd." Father Lucien : " There is something exquisitely touching in those lines, and we can readily... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapped it: it fell to the ground. And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind,...of wringing and breaking a heart Already to sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner awhile ; And the... | |
 | English poetry - 1869
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapped it : it fell to the ground. And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind, Regardless of wringing and breaking a heart • This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner awhile ; And the tear... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 516 pagina’s
...it fell to the ground. And snch, I exclaim'd, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind,_ Regardless of wringing and breaking a heart Already...This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloom'd with its owner a while And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd pel... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapped it, — it fell to the ground. And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind ; Regardless of wringing or breaking a heart, Already to sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapped it, — it fell to the ground. And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind ; Regardless of wringing or breaking a heart, Already to sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872
...buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And swinging...This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloom'd with its owner a while ; And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapped it — it fell to the ground. 'And such,' I exclaimed, 'is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind,...of wringing and breaking a heart Already to sorrow resigned. ' This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner a while ; And... | |
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And it seem'd to a fanciful view To weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas! I snapp'd it,... 
