 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,...Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...and God has given my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 pages
...griefs—and God has given my share— I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and God has giv'n my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers y William C. Hall by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...liod has given my share— I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown. Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...and God has giv'n my share— I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowr's to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...GOD has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose : I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...— and God has giv'n my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...grief, and God has given my share — I still had nopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me down; To husband out life's taper...pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;... | |
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Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. 
