 Tis left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower...  The works of ... lord Byron - Page 26by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816Full view - About this book
 | 1812 - 576 pages
...soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. ' p. 6-3. The sentiment of the following passage is striking and original... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower? No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...shown To every failing but their own, „ And every wo a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame." P. 6 — 8. The sentiment of the following passage... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...soar From rose to tulip as before? i Or Heauty blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower? No: gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every wo a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame! • **•**• The mind, that broods o'er guilty... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...soar From rose to tulip as before? Or beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower? No: gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but thir own, And every wo a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame." P. 6-8. The sentiment of... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shewn To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame."... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...sour From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shewn To every tailing but their own, Except an erring sister's shame.'—p. 19> &c. The causes of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No : gayer insects fluttering by 285 Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shewn To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | 1813 - 560 pages
...Beauty, blighted in an hour, ; Find joy within her broken bower I No : gayer insects fluttering by N Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shewn To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1814 - 378 pages
...Ah ! where shall either victim rest? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shewn To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1816 - 242 pages
...delicate person, and to all who PREFACE. Xt correspond with her in sentiment, LORD BYRON may say, " Gayer insects fluttering by, Ne'er droop the wing...failing but their own : And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame." Let those who imagine that they stand, take heed lest they fall ;... | |
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