 Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er...  Solitude - Page 108de Johann Georg ritter von Zimmermann - 1819 - 368 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | British anthology - 1825 - 462 pages
...gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? Ask the faithful youth, WJiy the cold urn of her whom long he loved So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely...footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears; O ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...world could oiler. ' Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he l So often fills bis arms, so often draws His lonely footsteps, at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? • • •'' Oh ! he will tell thee that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 396 pages
...after those that are gone, which would not be exchanged for the gayest scenes the world could offer. ' Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved, So often fills his arms, so often draws His lonely footsteps, at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 pages
...wayward hand the while Be kind or cruel ? Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom he long lov'd So often fills his arms, so often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ! O ! he will tell thec, that the wealth... | |
 | James Ewell - 1827 - 868 pages
...time the idea of the losa of it This pleasure of grief is beautifully described by Akenside. * * * Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn of her whom...lonely footsteps at the silent hour To pay the mournful tribute of his tears? Oh! he will tell thee, that the wealth of world* Should neVr seduce his bosom... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 pages
...thoughts, the more lively and tender from the very distance which separates, and the danger that threatens. Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her, whom long he loved, So often fills his arms; so often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen, To pay the... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...of a practice from which we might now probably turn with abhorrence as barbarous and unnatural. • Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd * An application was made, a few years since, by a gentleman in South Carolina, to the Legislature,... | |
 | George Croly - 1828 - 430 pages
...him, this other hero ; who, in times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse MOURNFUL PLEASURES. Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved, So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1829 - 464 pages
...2. Does not the mind delight in the Invisible and the Obscure 1 See ante pages 345, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
...hath indeed given rise to agonizing feelings, mingled with an ineffable tenderness and delicacy — Ask the faithful Youth, Why the cold urn of HER whom...footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears 1 Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom... | |
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