 Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain, In time...  The Scots Magazine - Seite 2611764Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 Seiten
...her triumphs, and die3.' In the fourth I find nothing better than this natural strain of 29 Hope: ' Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. ' Yet Time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 Seiten
...Ballad, of which the following stanzas, full of an artificial simplicity, will serve as an example : — Alas ! from the day that we met What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the... | |
 | 1864 - 612 Seiten
...vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree ; It is not for me to explaiu How fair and how fickle they he. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? "When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower and the shrub and the... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 224 Seiten
...to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. Alas ! from the...an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flow'r, and the shrub, and the... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 Seiten
...following stanza, yet the poignancy of the experience is successfully transmuted to favour and prettiness : Alas! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain: The flower, and the shrub, and the... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 224 Seiten
...to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of an higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. Alas ! from the...an end to my woes? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flow'r,am! the shrub , and the... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 Seiten
...to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle they be. Alas ! from the...an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet «¡me may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and... | |
 | R.D. Marsh - 1850 - 136 Seiten
...to cure. Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree : It is not for me to explain How fair, and how fickle, they be. Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, Yet time may diminish the pain ; The flow'r, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I rear'd for her pleasure... | |
 | J.C. GROCOTT - 1854 - 310 Seiten
...of my sheep : They have nothing to do but to stray ; I have nothing to do but to weep. * * * , * * Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain ; The flower, and the shrub, and the... | |
 | American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - 1899 - 340 Seiten
...banishest wisdom the while, And the lips of the nymph I admire, Seemed forever adorned with, a smile. Alas! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes, When I can not endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Now I know what it is to have strove With... | |
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