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" To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. "
Who is the heir? - Page 120
by Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1865
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 66

1865 - 792 pages
...scholar he was ! And the very prince of pnets, to шу mind. I abhor that Tennysoniansuperfetation of epithets. What pathos in this simple quatrain —...To my ninth decade I have tottered on, And no soft anu bends now my steps to «teâdy; She, who once led me where «he would, is gone, So, wheu he calls...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 3; Volume 66

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...little ripples on a sunny river." What can exceed the sad beauty of this, one of his latest thoughts ? ''To my ninth decade I have tottered on, And no soft...So, when he calls me, Death shall find me ready." Wordsworth was wont to call those " occasional poeras " of his, " moods of my own mind." Conscious...
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Lyra Elegantiarum

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 pages
...grim, Should think of me, who never thought of him. Unknown. CLXXIV. To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady ;...gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. CLXXV. ON SOUTHEY1 S DEATH. FRIENDS! hear the words my wandering thoughts would say, And cast them...
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Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry ...

Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 532 pages
...hope seem'd vain, There may be love that feels no pain. LXXVII. • To my ninth decad I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady ;...gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. LXXVIII. ON MAN. In his own image the Creator made His own pure sunbeam quicken'd thee, O man ! Thou...
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Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late ..., Volume 2

Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 270 pages
...Delicious lanthe ! Alas, such beauty of form and mind could not live on long enough for the poet : — " To my ninth decade I have tottered on, And no soft...; So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready." What a tender heart he had, this rugged old poet, this noble lover of liberty ! One epigram more, and...
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Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor - 1882 - 546 pages
...and I am ready to depart. CCCXVIIL — ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady ;...gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. CCCXIX. — MEMORY. The Mother of the Muses, we are taught, Is Memory : she has left me ; they remain,...
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Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Sidney Colvin - 1882 - 434 pages
...and I am ready to depart. CCCXVIII.—ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady ;...gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. 350 PERSONAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. CCCXIX.—MEMORY. The Mother of the Muses, we are taught, Is Memory...
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Lyria Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 pages
...grim, Should think of me, who never thought of him. Unknown. CLXXIV. To my ninth decade I have totter'd on. And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady ,...is gone. So when he calls me, Death shall find me rcadv. CLXXV. ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH. FRIENDS ! hear the words my wandering thoughts would say, And cast...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

1905 - 622 pages
...sadder this, When death forbids one hour of mutual bliss (uxxvn.) To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady ;...gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. (ci.) Well I remember how you smiled To see me write your name upon The soft sea-sand,— "O ! what...
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The Ladies' Pageant

Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 402 pages
...and touch their bosoms ? I feel chilly and grown old. R. Browning To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady;...gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready. WS Lander Ballade of Dead Ladies < ^ <^ <^ < NAY, tell me now in what strange air The Roman Flora dwells...
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