 | Walter Percival - Annuals, American - 1848 - 382 pages
...are diamond sparks, Which dazzle as they pass ? Oh! who to sober measurement Time's happy fleetness brings, When Birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings! 17* FREEDOM. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. LOVE thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass7 Ah! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness...of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings 1 In the next extract there is an unexpected touch of sentiment mixed with its playfulness, that is... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 pages
...time has not moved onwards with leaden wings ; indeed almost unheeded have flown the hours — ' For who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for its wings ? ' A decision was, however, come to by Priessnitz, which for a time a little damped the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass1 Ah! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness...birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings1 •In the next extract there is an unexpected touch of sentiment mixed with its playfulness,... | |
 | Songs - 1853 - 456 pages
...'h! *Л ~m — i ^ on p-: lyti eads fV yj on ; J— | -Лт-j ' Î4 low'rs. О 1 who with АЦ1 «ho to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? Too late I stay'd — forgive the crime — Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless... | |
 | Forget-Me-Not, Forget-me-not - 1853 - 138 pages
...remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all its sands are diamond's sparks, That dazzle as they pass. Oh! who to sober measurement , Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent The plumage of their wings ? TABLE OF FIRST LINES. PAGE. A fire's a good companionable friend .. 59... | |
 | Mrs. J. Thayer - Gift books - 1853 - 144 pages
...are diamond sparks, Which dazzle as they pass. 0 ! who to sober measurement Time's happy fleetness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings. HON. R W. SPENCER. Romance YOUNG maiden who hast merely gone botanizing into the land of romance, and... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks Which dazzle as they pass ? • Ah, who to sober measurement...of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ? SONG. By WILLIAM CULLEN BRTANT. DOST tliou idly ask to hear At what gentle seasons Nymphs relent,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass1? Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness...of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings 1 In the next extract there is an unexpected touch of sentiment mixed with its playfulness, that is... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? Ah ! who to sober...of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ? w. R. PART ELEVENTH. — DEBATES. I. — ARE THE MENTAL CAPACITIES OF THE SEXES EQUAL ? The following... | |
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OO late I stayed ! forgive the crime, — Unheeded flew the hours ; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers ! What eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of... 
