 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again : But my face...threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. ; John Collins: died, 1808. There are a few instances in literature of fame established by a solitary... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 274 pages
...I 've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I '11 not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again. But my face in the glass I '11 serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this poor worn-out stuff which... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 270 pages
...'11 not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again. Bat my face in the glass 1 11 serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow, As this poor worn-out stuff which is threadbare To-day May become everlasting To-morrow." This, beyond doubt,... | |
 | Robert Kirkup Dent - 1880 - 674 pages
...Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again : But my face...threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. This charming production needs no comment; we therefore leave it to find its own way to the heart of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...I've worn for three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again: But my face...threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. HEHliEKT KNOWLES. HERBERT KNOWLES, a native of Canterbury (1798-1817), produced, when a youth of eighteen,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...brink of the grave 111 not seek to keep hovering. Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again: But my face lu the glass I'll serenely survey, And with smiles count...which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-mflrrow. HERBERT KNOWLE8, HERBERT KNOWLES, a native of Canterbury (1798-1817), produced, when a... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. JOHN COLLINS.... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...When I've worn it three-score years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again : But my face...each wrinkle and furrow ; As this old worn-out stuff, wh:ch is thread-bare To-day, May become everlasting — To-morrow ! 94.—THE IMPORTANCE OF TRIFLES.—H.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 420 pages
...year» and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to epin o'er again : But my face in the glass I'll serenely...survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow; And this old wurn-out stuff which in threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. LINES WRITTEN... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 pages
...Which I've worn for threescore years and ten, On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering, Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again ; But my face...threadbare to-day, May become Everlasting To-morrow. — Collins. CCCXIIL A WISH. MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear A... | |
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Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again : But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ; As this old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare Today, May become Everlasting Tomorrow. 
