| Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 pages
...shady city of palm-trees ; \ But, ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE STORM. I SEE J,he use ; and know my blood Is not a sea, But a shallow, bounded flood, Yet have... | |
| Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 pages
...shady city of palm-trees ; But, ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE STORM. I SEE the use ; and know my blood Is not a sea, But a shallow, bounded flood, Though red... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...shady city of palm-trees; But, oh! my soul, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. THE RAINBOW. STILL young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soiled, though fresh... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...shady city of palm-trees ; But, oh ! my soul, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. CHILDHOOD. I CANNOT reach it ; and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that Chronicle... | |
| 1850 - 560 pages
...shady city of palm-trees; Bat, oh ! my sonl, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. Heary Vaughan,—died in 1695. GLASS-WINDOWS began to be used in private houses in England, AD 1180:... | |
| 1850 - 544 pages
...throws its own colour over all his poetry, and gives its characteristic and peculiar moral value. ' Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; — ' says Jlenry Vaughan, an old poet, who shows a singular affinity of thought on this subject... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1856 - 330 pages
...shady city of palme-trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. COME, COMB. I. COME, come ! what doe I here ? Since he is gone Each day is grown a dozen year, And... | |
| Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 300 pages
...That shady city of palm-trees : But ah 1 my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers In the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...urn, In that state I came, return. HENRY VAUGHAN. THE GEEAT CYCLE. WE have travelled some distance together, kind reader, and have taken notes of various... | |
| Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 324 pages
...That shady city of palm-trees: But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. UENEY VAUGHAN. THE GBEAT CYCLE. WE have travelled some distance together, kind reader, and have taken... | |
| Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...shady city of palm-trees ; But, oh ! my soul, with too much stay, Is drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward...dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. HENBY VATGUAN. JHetfjoti of POOB heart, lament : For since thy Grod refuseth still, There is some rub,... | |
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