| English poetry - 1854 - 608 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 flown. Starting and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meager and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...more. Now spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; L)im in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...ELEGY." Now Spring returns ; but not to me returns The yernal 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. Starting and shivering in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beueath some blasted tree... | |
| Scottish ballads and songs - 1854 - 606 pages
...more. Now, Spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have knowu , Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health arc flown. Starting and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meager and pale, the ghost of what I was,... | |
| Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper bums, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined,... | |
| Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - English poetry - 1856 - 602 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 flown. Starting and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meager and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pages
...heart. " 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." To young Genius to die is often a great gain. The green leaf was almost hidden in blossoms, and the... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 458 pages
...heart. " 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." To young Genius to die is often a great gain. The green leaf was almost hidden in blossoms, and the... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 500 pages
..." 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." To young Genius to die is often a great gain. The green leaf was almost hidden in blossoms, and the... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 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 flown. Starting and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree... | |
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