 THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies;...  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 288by Henry Reed - 1857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, iu niy joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar...I loved a love once, fairest among women ; Closed arc her doors on me, I must not see her — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I hare a friend,... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...spirits fail me to supply Befitting language for 't, and I Can only bless it ! THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...school-days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. . . . Some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me — all are... | |
 | Edmund Martin Geldart - 1881 - 184 pages
...Lamb, looking back to early •days, can echo to the full the dirge of his loyal desolation : — " I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my...joyful schooldays : All, all are gone, the old familiar faces." Others survive but to reflect upon us as the reading that is written on their brow and ours,... | |
 | Girls - 1881 - 390 pages
...excellent, If it be husbanded with modesty.' CHAPTER III. THE GIRL AT SCHOOL — THE GIRL AND HER FRIENDS. ' I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days.' CHARLES LAMB. ' But this bright thread of unadulterate oreFriendship — will last, though Love exist... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pages
...a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning ? 2. OLD FAMILIAB FACES. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing,... | |
 | 1889 - 742 pages
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 | 1880 - 354 pages
...Alas ! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning. W. Wordsworth. CCXX THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions In my...All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a Ixive once, fairest among women : Closed are her doors on me, 1 must not see her — All, all are gone,... | |
 | Edward Moxon (and co.) - 1882 - 580 pages
...bedded child, And close his eyelids with thy silver wand ! THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. BY CHARLES LAMB. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my...carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom I loved a love once, fairest among women ; Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her — All,... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 212 pages
...died, and left me— Died prematurely in a day of horrors— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have had playmates, I have had companions In my...been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with iny bosom cronies— All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a love once, fairest among... | |
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