 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - English poetry - 1717 - 580 pages
...can her Maker fraife. The The Seas are quiet, when the Winds give 0Vr; So calm are we, when Taj/ions are no more : For then we know how vain it was to boeft Of fleeting Things, fo certain to lie lojt. Clouds of Affection from our younger Eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...requifite to raife Her, that unbody'd can her MAK ER praife. The fens are quiet, when the winds give-o'er: So> calm are we, when paffions are no more ! For,...fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs, which age defcries. The fouPs dark cottage,... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...can her MA KER praife. The feas are quiet, when the winds give o'er. So, calm are we, when paflions are no more ! For, then we know how vain it was to beaft Of fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...write, The fubjeft made us able to indite : The foul, with nobler refolutions deckt, The body (looping, does herfelf erecT: : No mortal parts are requifite...fleeting things, fo certain to be loft. Clouds of affeftion from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs, which age deluies. The The foul's dark cottage,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...nobler refolutions deckt, The body {looping does herfelf erect. No mortal parts are requifite to raifc Her that, unbody'd, can her maker praife. The feas...Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs which age defcric*. The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Select poetry - English poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...better part. WALLER. cxxxr. THE seas are quiet when the winds are o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1828 - 198 pages
...CAROLINE no YOUTH AND AGE. 1 The seas are quiet when the winds are o'er, So calm are we when passions are no more! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. 2 Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | Child rearing - 1841 - 300 pages
...Edwards. THE TRANQUIL MIND. The seas are quiet, when the winds are o'er — So calm are we, when passions are no more ; For then we know, how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...alone ! Crabbe. OLD AGE. THE seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er ; So calm are we, when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection, from our younger eyes, Conceal... | |
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. 
