 | Michael Bruce - 1770 - 144 pages
...Spring returns : but not to me returns The Ternal joy my better years have known ; Dim in- my breaft life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. XVII. Starting and fhtv'ring in th' inponftant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghoft of what I was, Beneath... | |
 | Literature - 1781 - 316 pages
...fpring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breaft life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and (hiv'ring in th' inconftant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghoft of what I was, Beneath fome blafted tree... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pages
...Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my brealt life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are fiown. 4 Starting and Ihiv'ring in th' inconßant wind. Meagre and pale, the ghbft of what I was, Beneath... | |
 | 1791 - 822 pages
...ipring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my brcalt life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and fhiv'ring in tli' inconihnt wind, Meagre and pale, the ghoil of what I was, Beneath fome blafted tree... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1288 pages
...our ttndernefs. -but not to me returns The vernal joy my betttr jrars have known ; Dim in my breail life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life, with health arc flown, ai much mud every feeling on the occafion be heightened, when we know, that this perfon... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Anecdotes - 1796 - 296 pages
...fortnight of his deceale, wrote ;i poem, which concludes with the following ftanzas: " Dim in my breaft life's dying taper burns, . " And all the joys of life, with health are flown. " Starting and Ihivering at the chilling wind, " Mc-agre and pale, theghoftof what I was, " Beneath fome blafted tree... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...paper. Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys...Starting and shiv'ring in th' unconstant wind, Meagre and pule, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...paper. Now spring returns i but not to me. returns The vernal joys my better days have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting ami shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Tk-ueatil some blasted... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...taper bums, And all the joys of life with health have nWif . Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was. Beneath some blasted tree I liereclin'd, And eoimt the silent moments as they pa?.* : The wiriged moments, whose unstaying speea... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...more. • Now spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flow'n. Starting and shivering in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree... | |
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Now Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. 
