 Bound to thy service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1801835Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left -more desolate, more dreary cold, Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow...Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! HAYDON ! let worthier judges praise the skill On Haydon's Here by thy pencil shown in truth of lines... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest fill'd with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine...Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO A SKYLARK. ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 pages
...cheek ; And her lips, quickening with uncertain red, Seemed from each other a faint warmth to borrow. ' Deep was the awe, the rapture high, Of love emboldened,...others, with a sense that it is the work of the autumn dny of a great poet's honoured life. It is streaked with all the tints of the season — the bright... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1835 - 262 pages
...heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow...Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! FOUR fiery steeds impatient of the rein Whirled us o'er sunless ground beneath a sky As void of sunshine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1837 - 376 pages
...heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow...Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! LTV. TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ON THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA. HAYDON... | |
 | 1835 - 610 pages
...doubtful shining.' — pp. 63 — 65. And in adding to all these the exquisite lines following, we cauuot but notice the resemblance to the tone of Shakspeare's...that my torturing doubts their end may know !' — p. 143. The perusal of this volume has affected us in many ways; amongst others, with a sense that it... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow,...Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know.' SURPRISED by joy—impatient as the wind I turned to share the transport—Oh ! with whom But thee,... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest fill'd with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine...Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! WORDSWORTH. THE WEALTH OF LOVE. Here, in our souls, we treasure up the wealth Fraud cannot filch,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pages
...tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold, Than a forsaken bird's nest filled with snow, Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine;...Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know." A. That is indeed the most pathetic description of the speechless palsy that precedes the death of... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary ker Willis( t WOHDSWO»TH. LOVE'S ARTIFICE. I SAID it was a wilful, wayward thing, And *o it is, fantastic and... | |
| |
