 Doom'd, as I am, in solitude to waste The present moments, and regret the past ; Depriv'd of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear, this anxious mien, The dull effect of humour, or of spleen...  The Oxford Entertaining Miscellany, Or, Weekly Magazine: Containing ... - Seite 801824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 Seiten
...The present moments, and regret the past; Deprived of every joy 1 valued most, My friend torn from me and my mistress lost ; , Call not this gloom I wear, this anxious mien, The dull effect of business or of spleen. Still, still, 1 mourn, with each returning day, Him snatch 'd by fate in early... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 Seiten
...present moments, and regret the past; Deprived of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear,...Fix'd in her choice, and faithful — but in vain! O prone to pity, generous, and sincere, Whose eye ne'er yet refused the wretch a tear ; Whose heart... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1855 - 294 Seiten
...present moments, and regret the past ; Deprived of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear,...Him snatch'd by fate, in early youth away ; And her — through tedious years of doubt and pain, Fix'd in her choice, and faithful — but in vain. O prone... | |
 | Christians - 1856 - 408 Seiten
...present moments, and regret the past ; Deprived of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear,...Still, still I mourn, with each returning day, Him snatched by fate, in early youth, away : And her, through tedious years of doubt and pain. Fixed in... | |
 | 1860 - 784 Seiten
...present moments, and regret the past ; Deprtv'd of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me , that, if it should reach a second edition, I etl'ect of humor or of spleen ! Still, still, I mourn with each returning day, Him. snatch'd by fate... | |
 | William Cowper - 1863 - 540 Seiten
...present moments, and regret the past; Deprived of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost, Call not this gloom I wear,...anxious mien, The dull effect of humour, or of spleen I Still, still I mourn, with each returning day, Him snatch'd by fate in early youth away ; And her... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 622 Seiten
...present moments, and regret the past ; Deprived of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me h eifect of business or of spleen. Still, still, I mourn, with each returning day, Him snateh'd by fate... | |
 | William Cowper - 1866 - 720 Seiten
...present moments, and regret the past; Deprived of every joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost, Call not this gloom I wear,...Still, still I mourn, with each returning day, Him snatched by fate in early youth away ;' And her through tedious years of doubt and pain, Fixed in her... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1869 - 608 Seiten
...again, in a poem written at the time of the decease of a friend (Sir William Russell), as one who was " Thro' tedious years of doubt and pain, Fix'd in her choice and faithful, — but in vain." From the time that Cowper left London, to spend the remainder of his life in comparative seclusion,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 574 Seiten
...joy I valued most, My friend torn from me, and my mistress lost ; Call not this gloom I wear, tliis anxious mien, The dull effect of humour, or of spleen...Fix'd in her choice, and faithful — but in vain ! O prone to pity, generous, and sincere, Whoso eye ne'er yet refused the wretch a tear ; Whose heart... | |
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