Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love... Works - Seite 142von Charles Dickens - 1846Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1857 - 396 Seiten
...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft blue eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die." Passing over the poet's unhappy mood of mind, occasioned, probably, as my good old uncle Barnabas... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1857 - 384 Seiten
...us. Shall we say, in the language of Lalla Eookh, " I never rear'da fair gazelle, To glad me with her soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was swre to die}" About two months ago, the lamented dead opened up a communication with us, which promised... | |
| George Coggeshall - 1858 - 628 Seiten
...never loved a plant or flower But it was first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To soothe me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me — it was sure to die ! " I will not indulge further in my own grief, but again resume the thread of my narrative. It... | |
| Lola Montez - 1858 - 154 Seiten
...by quoting the following words of Moore : " I never had a dear gazelle To glad me with its mild blue eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die." This will make her particularly anxious to be considered one of your " female friends." RULE... | |
| Charles James Cannon - 1859 - 288 Seiten
...from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle,...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die !' — the Arab maiden has been imitated in lands where the story of her misfortunes was never... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1859 - 606 Seiten
...from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle....came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew. To see thee, hear thee, call... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 Seiten
...seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. D2 I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die. MOORE. THE REMONSTRANCE. WHY hast thou thus, since childhood's hour, Mxed hopes on things which... | |
| Leroy Jones Halsey - 1860 - 460 Seiten
...from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle,...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die !" Surely death never appears so unnatural, and but for the Bible so mysterious, as when the blooming... | |
| Maria Dolores E.R. Gilbert - 1860 - 152 Seiten
...by quoting the following words of Moore : " I never had a dear gazelle To glad me with its mild blue eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die." This will make her particularly anxious to be considered one of your " female friends." RULE... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 Seiten
...from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, 30 But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle,...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee, hear thee, call... | |
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