 | Matthew Forster Conolly - Celebrities - 1866 - 518 pages
...well-known and deeply pathetic elegy on his own approaching death, beginning :— " The spring returns i but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying lap-r burns. And all the joys of life with health are flown." This was the last... | |
 | John Brown - English literature - 1866 - 454 pages
...the poem. The singularly close parallelism of the above with the wellknown lines, — " Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known," etc., must necessarily strike every one. The stanza we have now given has never, so far as we know,... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 448 pages
...the poem. The singularly close parallelism of the above with the wellknown lines, — " Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known," etc., must necessarily strike every one. The stanza we have now given has never, so far as we know,... | |
 | Edward Parmelee Smith - United States - 1869 - 602 pages
...from that pathetic "Elegy," which seemed to have been written for Anderson himself: » "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... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Hymn writers - 1869 - 660 pages
...feelings in his inimitable pathetic ' Elegy on Spring,' especially in verse sixteen : — ' 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.' He had purposed publishing... | |
 | John Wilson - 1870 - 722 pages
...that will not die," though the dirge but draw now and then a tear from some simple 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 burn«, And all the joys of life with health are flown." To young Genius... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...anxious wishes e'er disturb'd my ease : Heaven gave content and health — I ask'd no more. Now, Spring the van ; And clash' d their broadswords in the rear The wild Macfarlane's plaided cl breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health arc flown. Starting and shivering... | |
 | 1874 - 608 pages
...he wrote the ' Elegy on Spring,' in which occur the well-known plaintive lines : — •\ow 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.' Sustained by Christian... | |
 | Rev. James W. Taylor - Fife (Scotland) - 1875 - 420 pages
...1746, and here he sang in the opening of 1767, the pathetic dirge of his own death :— The 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. Nestling near to Kinnesswood... | |
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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. 
