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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,...

The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer - Page 225
1855
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Charles Dickens and Music

James T. Lightwood - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 188 pages

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Mary Telfair to Mary Few: Selected Letters, 1802-1844

Mary Telfair - History - 2007 - 378 pages

...Oleanders have been killed by the frost — They were the pride of the Parterre — I may truly say "I never loved a tree or flower but twas the first to fade away."6 — Now I shall not write to you again until I get a letter from you bad delinquent as you...

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Other Men's Minds; Or, Seven Thousand Choice Extracts on History, Science ...

Edwin Davies - Literary Collections - 2008 - 688 pages

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