From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In... Sketches in History and Poetry - Página 375por John Campbell Shairp - 1887 - 376 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 442 páginas
...drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE STORM. I SEE the use ; and know my blood Is not a sea, But a shallow, bounded flood, Though red... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 436 páginas
...drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. THE STORM. I SEE J,he use ; and know my blood Is not a sea, But a shallow, bounded flood, Yet have... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 páginas
...drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. THE RAINBOW. STILL young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soiled, though fresh... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 páginas
...drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. CHILDHOOD. I CANNOT reach it ; and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that Chronicle... | |
| 1850 - 560 páginas
...drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. Heary Vaughan,—died in 1695. GLASS-WINDOWS began to be used in private houses in England, AD 1180:... | |
| Henry Vaughan - 1856 - 330 páginas
...and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. COME, COMB. I. COME, come ! what doe I here ? Since he is gone Each day is grown a dozen year, And... | |
| Samuel Osgood - 1855 - 324 páginas
...drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. UENEY VAUGHAN. THE GBEAT CYCLE. WE have travelled some distance together, kind reader, and have taken... | |
| Songs - 1856 - 712 páginas
...drunk, and staggers in the way. Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came return. HENBY VATGUAN. JHetfjoti of POOB heart, lament : For since thy Grod refuseth still, There is some rub,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1859 - 312 páginas
...and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move ; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return." Here is a picture of the 'angel-visited world of Eden, not altogether destroyed by the Fall, when "... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...and staggers in the way:— Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return. H. Vaughan TO MR. LAWRENCE Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank... | |
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