 Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around ; Nor that content, surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned; Nor fame nor power nor love nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround —...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - Page 2691858Full view - About this book
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...Then I have neither goods nor gold. I think it is Shelley who has a passage resembling this :— " Alas! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that content, exceeding wealth, The sage in contemplation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd ; Nor wealth,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...see the waves upon Iho shore. Like light dissolved in slar-showen, thrown 472 I ei( upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from iis measured motion, How sweet! ditl any heart now share in my emotion. Alas! I have nor hope nor health,... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 408 pages
...might, — The breath of the west wind is light," &c. " I sit upon the sands alone — The lightniny of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me — and a tone Arises from its mingled motion, How sweet! if any heart could share in my emotion." I imagine also that we owe the... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...see tile waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown : I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing...me, and a tone ! Arises from its measured motion, w sweet ! did any heart now share in rny emotion. Vías ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 pages
...I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing...its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now eliare in my emotion. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that... | |
 | 1835 - 606 pages
...to display itself — the first in some stanzas " written near Naples," part of which we quote : — Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that contempt surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found. And walked with inward glory crown 'd —... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...alone, The lightning of the noon-tide oeean Is flashing ronnd me, and a tone Arises from its measnred motion. How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas II have nor hope nor health, Nor peaee within, nor ealm aronnd, Nor that eontent snqiassing wealth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...I »ee the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown ; I tit upon the sands consolidated funds of judgments iniquitously legal,...lawful proprietors with the gibbet at their door. 1 Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around, Nor that content, surpassing... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1852 - 202 pages
...calm and pleasantness. But it came not ; and I applied earnestly to myself the words of the poet : ' Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within,...content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.' " As if to bless me with the last, boon, I saw ascending to the bastion the gentleman whose appearance... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pages
...I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing...surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found, And walked with inward glory crowned — Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom... | |
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