 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...anxious wishes e'er disturb'd my ease ; Heav'n gave content and health— I ask'd no 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, Starting and shivering in the' inconstant 'wind, Meagre and pale,... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - Poetry - 1810 - 450 pages
...I hope, will think this note too long if the following stanzas of the Elegy are added. " 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... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...anxious wishes e'er disturb'd my ease ; Heav'n gave content and health, — lask'd no 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 shiv'ring... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...continued to increase ; and, as the year advanced, he might have said with poor Michael Bruce: " Now Spring returns, — but not to me returns " The vernal joy my better years have known." In the end of June he removed to Brow, on the-Solway Firth, to try the effect of sea-bathing. There... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...eventful day. § 140. Extract from a Poem on his own approaching Death, by MICHAEL BRUCE. 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 shiv'rin"... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...most interesting relic of hit amiable feelings and fortitude. FROM THE ELEGY ON SPRING. 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 shiv'ring... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...on his own approaching death ; with the latter part of which I shall conclude this 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 thejoys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1821 - 282 pages
...anxious wifhes e'er difturb'd my cafe; Heav'n gave content and health—I afk'd no more. 60 Now Spring returns: but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breaf t life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting atid fliiv'ring... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pages
...on his approaching death ; •with the latter part of which 1 shall conclude this 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 of life with health are ilown. Starting and shiv'ringin... | |
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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. 
