 | William Platt - 1857 - 1138 pages
...love it — and there it is — uninjured — whole as ever ! Ah, sweet rose ! — " I knew, I kuew it could not last — 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly,...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. * * * * Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew, To see thee, hear thee,... | |
 | Joseph Benjamin Polley - Literary Collections - 1908 - 366 pages
...balance of the night, we took up the line of march next morning at daylight for Campbell's Station. " Oh ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay." One may be ever so philosophical, and yet — especially if he be a Confederate soldier — there will... | |
 | 1908 - 650 pages
...details regarding the youth and boyhood of the hero are to be gleaned from " Locksley Hall "'? 6. (a.) "Oh ! ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay." (b.) " How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour when storms are gone." Quote the ten lines... | |
 | David James Burrell - Presbyterian Church - 1909 - 366 pages
...we ever live at this poor dying rate?" The lament of Thomas Moore finds a response in every heart: Oh, ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest...or flower But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But, when it came to know me well And love... | |
 | Commercial travellers - 1909 - 448 pages
...pheasant, or other dainty that had specially appealed to what is termed their grosser natures : — Oh ! ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. A feature, too, with these individuals is to look well ahead, and when they meet with something more... | |
 | Caleb Jones, Julia Anna Jones - 1909 - 226 pages
...To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes." Al: "Oh! 'twas ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." Doc Styles: "Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis man's perdition... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary curiosa - 1909 - 1116 pages
...of ffemt. Love on through all ills, and love on till they die. The Light of the Harem. I knew I knew it could not last : *Twas bright, 'twas heavenly,...childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; 1 never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1909 - 1112 pages
...heavenly, but 'tis past. Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; 1 never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love... | |
 | Edgar Meck Dilley - Bharbazonia (Imaginary place) - 1911 - 400 pages
...I was standing in the summer-house — free! Solonika was trusting me! CHAPTER XII THE RENUNCIATION Oh, ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away! — Moore: Lalla Rookh. WHEN I returned to Castle Framkor that evening and joined Nicholas and the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...enjoy'd, Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd ! 1231 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. O ! ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away ! 1232 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers DISCONTENT. I know a discontented gentleman, Whose humble... | |
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Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me,... 
