And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! But ah! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary! And should my future lot... Poems - Page 242by William Cowper - 1826Full view - About this book
| Clara Lucas Balfour - Great Britain - 1854 - 422 pages
...its youth, but improves upon it. Well does the gentle Cowper say — " But still to love midst every ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still." She lost her brother in 1822, rather more than two years before her own death. She purposed residing... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...thou movest, Upheld by twoj yet still thou lovcst, My Mary ! And still to love, though press'd witli ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary ! But ah ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show, Transforms thy smiles... | |
| Robert Benton Seeley - 1855 - 294 pages
...of limbs thou prov'st, That now at every step thou mov'st Upheld by two ; — yet still thou lov'st, My Mary! And still to love, though prest with ill,...age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary ! But ah ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to... | |
| William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...every step thou movest Upheld by two; yet still thou lovest, My Mary! And still to love, though press'd with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! But ah ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to... | |
| William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pages
...of limbs thou prov'st, f That now at every step thou mov'st, Upheld by two, yet still thou lov'st, My Mary! And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry ago to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary But ah ! by constant heed I know, How... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...feebleness of limbs thou prov'st, That now at every step thou mov'st, Upheld by two, yet still thou lov'st, My Mary ! And still to love, though prest with ill,...age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary ! But ah ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to... | |
| William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...every step thou mov'st Upheld by two, yet still thou lov'st, My Mary! And still to love, though press'd with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary I But ah ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show, Transforms thy smiles... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...step thou movest, Upheld by two j yet still thou lovest, My Mary! And still to love, though press'd with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! But ah ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show. Transforms thy smiles to... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Mental illness - 1856 - 438 pages
...step thou mov'st Upheld by two ; — yet still thou loVat, My Mary! And still to love, though pressed with ill, In wint'ry age to feel no chill. With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! A DISTRESSING YEAR. 877 Bat, all ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show,... | |
| William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 pages
...limbs thou prov'st, That now at every step thou mov'st, Upheld by two, yet still thou lov'st, My Mary I And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry...age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! But ah ! by constant heed I know, How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to... | |
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