 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
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 608 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 noontide ocean Is flashing...tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet ! did my heart share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around,... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 614 pages
...strown; I sec the 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...tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did my heart share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope, nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm around,... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855
...dissolved in star-showers thrown. I sit upon the sands alone: The lightning of the noon-tide-ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet!—did any heart now share in my emotion. *»*****»* * " Yet now despair itself is mild, Ev'n... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 684 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 noontide ocean Is flashing...motion. How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion ! It cannot be true, as we are told, that this verse was " written in dejection." The sweet influences... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1856 - 686 pages
...; I see the waves upon tne shore Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown ; I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing...motion. How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion ! It cannot be true, as we are told, that this verse was " written in dejection." The sweet influences... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1847 - 344 pages
...might remark the same of his ' Stanzas written in Dejection near Naples," where he exclaims, ' Alas II have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within, nor calm...content surpassing wealth, The sage in meditation found. I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life and care Which I have borne, and yet must... | |
 | Mrs. H. B. Paull - 1857 - 348 pages
...friend with such exclusive preference, when there were so many of the county people present. CHAPTEK VI. Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within,...calm around Nor that content, surpassing wealth, The sago in meditation found, And walk'd with inward glory crown'd; Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 426 pages
...I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolv'd in star-showers, thrown. I sit upon the sands alone, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measur'd motion. How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 436 pages
...the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolv'd in star-showers, thrown. I sit upon the sands aloue, The lightning of the noon-tide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its mcasur'd motion. How sweet ! did any heart now share in my emotion. Alas ! I have nor hope nor health,... | |
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