 | Miriam Coles Harris - 1864 - 522 pages
...CHAPTER XXIX. " Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around— *•**•* I conld lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life...must bear Till death, like sleep, might steal on me." SHELLBT. " Row late you have slept, Miss !" said Kitty, as she hnr. tied up in answer to my bell. "... | |
 | George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 pages
...life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Ev'n as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care * Poems, Paris Ed., p. 224. Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 pages
...say like a man who resembled him in nothing but a love of liberty, and the abuse he got for it, — " I could lie down like a tired child And weep away...have borne, and yet must bear, Till death like sleep should steal on me, And I might fuel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1866 - 428 pages
...saddening as that of evening in more common lives. The profound melancholy of those lines o» Shelley, "I could lie down like a tired child And weep away the life of care Which I hare borne and yet must bear," came from a heart, as he says, " too soon grown old," — at twenty-six... | |
 | 1868 - 902 pages
...peaceful — a spurious and delusive calm, difficult to attain for a moment, and certain not to endure. " Yet now despair itself is mild. Even as the winds...life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear." * Such is their language ; so writes one of the most distinguished of these "apostles of affliction."... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Ibid. I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away...life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear. Stanzas, written in Dejection, near Naples. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...; 25 Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, 30 And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 pages
...; 23 Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, 3° And weep away the life of care Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 266 pages
...saddening as that of evening in more common lives. The profound melancholy of those lines of Shelley, — " I could lie down like a tired child And weep away the life of care Which I have born and yet must bear, came from a heart, as he says, " too soon grown old," — at twenty-six years,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. ur so an» ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and... | |
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Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, ii. 
