 | Epigrams - 1877 - 130 pages
...LUTTKELL. • o On a New-born Babe. ON parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. On being Locked in in Kensington Gardens. FROM Paradise Adam and Eve were... | |
 | Alfred Thomas T. Verney- Cave (5th baron Braye.) - 1877 - 318 pages
...Muses, cease. TRANSLATION. " The morn that ushered thee to life, my child, Saw thee in tears, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm, thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep." SIR W. JONES, FROM THE ARABIC, ( Te nascente, puer, tibi subrisere propinqui,... | |
 | Alfred Thomas T. Verney- Cave (5th baron Braye.) - 1881 - 228 pages
...Nymphs unloved. TRANSLATION. "The morn that ushered thee to life, my child, Saw thee in tears, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep." SIR W. JONES, from the Arabic. E nascente, puer, tibi subrisere propinqui,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...Kaon THE PERSIAN. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all arouud thce ther iu thy bonds a cheerful brow : Though fallen thyself, never to rise aga while all around thce weep. AN ODE IN IMITATION OF ALC.EUS. What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...Built on Sir W. Jones s version. Thee, on thy mother's knees, a new-born child, In tears we saw when all around thee smiled. So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Smiles may be thine when all around thee weep. THOMAS MOORE. [1779-1852 MIRIAM'S SONG. Bxod, xv, 20.... | |
 | Douglas Veitch - 1882 - 394 pages
...both for hay and corn. April 1. On parent's knee, a naked new born child Weeping thou sats't while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. — From the Persian. If you desire to please, do not seek to please, but... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...eiinji TETRASTICH. FROM THE PERSIAN. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while in corrupted things, But virtues that descend have heavenly wings. FROM "LINES O inayst smile while all around thee weep. AN ODE IN IMITATION OF ALC^EUS. What constitutes »state?... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...pearls at random strung.1 Ibid. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. From the Persian. What constitutes a state ? • . • • • • Men... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 pages
...Persian by Sir William Jones: — "On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep." EFFECTS OF TIME. In short, do you not see stones even yield to the power... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 pages
...Persian by Sir William Jones: — " On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, while all around theo weep." EFFECTS OF TIME. In short, do you not see stones even yield to the power... | |
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On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. 
