 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 408 pages
...in the tempest of his affection — how exquisite the pathos conveyed by the closing stanza : — " Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care, Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till Death like sleep might steal on me,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround— Smiling they live, and call life pleasure: To me that cup has been dealt...another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even us the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, Atid weep away the life of care Which... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...— Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; me that eup has been dealt in another measure. Ifct now despair itself is mild, "* » Even as the winds...bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea [Breathe o'er my dying brain its... | |
 | 1874 - 714 pages
...with and Humour 'da little, to keep it quiet, till it falls* asleep, and then the Care is over." " I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away...must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me." JWW BEALE : BAILLIE : BALIOL : BAILLEUL. — One fact may establish a theory. The fact is, that in... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 pages
...fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround— Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; To me that cup has been dealt...is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lio down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear,... | |
 | 1835 - 606 pages
...whom these surround — Smiling, who live, and call life pleasure : To me that cup is dealt in quite another measure ' Yet now despair itself is mild,...the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tir'd child, And weep away this life of care, Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...— Smiling they live, and eall life pleasnre ; — To me that enp has been dealt in another measnre. Yet now despair itself is mild. Even as the winds and waters are ; I eonld lie down like a tired ehild, And weep away the life of eare Whieh I have borne, and yet mnst... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and ld the Adriatic wave« Where Tyranny hare borne, and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1851 - 420 pages
...grief, Whicn finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear; or when Shelley murmured — I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of eure, Which I nave borne, and still must bear; or, finally, when Byron speaks of his mood of feeling,... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1853 - 228 pages
...fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt...bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last... | |
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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... 
