 Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1071821Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1840 - 304 pages
...? As those who doat on odours, pluck the flowers, And place upon their breast, but place to die, So the frail beings we would fondly cherish, Are laid within our bosoms but to perish !" These lines Antonia recited with great emphasis, and in a sonorous voice. " Are those verses yours... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - English fiction - 1840 - 444 pages
...loved ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers. And made thy best interpreters a sigh ? As those who dote on odours, pluck the flowers. And place upon their breast, but place to die, So the frail beings we would fondly cherish, Are laid within our... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1844 - 780 pages
...his own coals. 3 As those who dotfi on odouri pluck the flowors. And place them on their breasts — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish." [Don Juan, c. 111. St. 2.] 3 [" Guatimozin, together with his chief favourite, being subjected by Cortes... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...can always answer you in the question of Guatimozin to his minister — each being on his own coals.1 As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers. And place them on their breasts — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Arc laid within our... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ? 4s those who doat on odors pluck the fl»wers, s sigh — One who, though far less tender, May be...more blest than I. WHEN THROUGH THE PIAZETTA. WHEW in laid within our bosoms but "• perish. LORD BYRON. LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR, I ARISE from dreams... | |
 | George Hughes - 1846 - 430 pages
...danger of a wreck; And nought will our voyage check Ere again I on thy neck Joyful bend ! B 3 LINES. " As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them in their breast—but place to die,— Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within... | |
 | George Hughes - 1846 - 428 pages
...danger of a wreck ; And nought will our voyage check Ere again I on thy neck Joyful bend ! LINES. " As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them in their breast — but place to die, — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 pages
...what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.(') (1) [This, we must allow, is pretty enough, and not at all objectionable in a moral point of view.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 394 pages
...ours, Which makes it fatal to be loved? ah! why With cypress branches hast thou wreath'd thy bowsrs. And made thy best, interpreter a sigh? As those who...odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breasts—but place to die— Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms... | |
 | 1848 - 650 pages
...is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved — Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh — As those who doat on odours pluck the flowers And place them on their breast, but place to dieThus the frail beings... | |
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