 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...school- room at Forrest Mill. His "Elegy" was the last composition which he lived to finish. " 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," are four lines of... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1877 - 832 pages
...well-known and deeply pathetic elegy on his own approaching death ; beginning •-— " 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." This was the last... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - Analysis (Philosophy) - 1877 - 240 pages
...hither. 16. By day he mingles with the crowd, yet finds his soul to fears a prey. 1 7. Now, Spring returns : but not to me returns the vernal joy my better years have known. 18. The page sullenly murmured some indistinct reply ; nevertheless, he obeyed the mandate. 19. The... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...No anxious wishes Ver disturb'dmy 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, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...anxious wishes'e'er disturb'dmy 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. And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring... | |
 | A. M. Trotter - English language - 1878 - 160 pages
...And parted thus they rest, who played beneath the same green tree. Them that honour me I will honour. Not to me returns the vernal joy my better years have known. 51. Adjective Clauses may also be introduced by— (2.) Relative Adverbs, such as, where, when, why,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...anxious wishes e'er disturbed my ease ; Heaven gave content and health — I asked no more. 16 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. G 149 1 7 Starting... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...complete edition was brought out. FROM AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN SPRING. Now Spring returns ; but not to mo wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wil breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shivering... | |
 | Rev. James King - Anglican Communion - 1885 - 350 pages
...affecting is the sixteenth stanza, where, referring to his own declining health, he writes — 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. In July 1767, at the... | |
 | John Hardy Raven - Elegiac poetry, Latin - 1885 - 116 pages
...plane, The taper elm, and lofty ash disclose : And blooming hawthorn variegates the scene. 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. I hear the helpless... | |
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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. 
