 Woe waits the insect and the maid; A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play and man's caprice; The lovely toy so fiercely sought, Hath lost its charm by being caught, For every touch that wooed its stay Hath brushed its brightest hues away,...  The Quarterly Review - Página 3361813Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Milner - 1874 - 344 páginas
...sought, Hath lost its charm by being caught ; For every touch that wooed its stay, Hath brush'd its brightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and beauty gone, Tis left to fly or fall alone." Youth may chase the butterfly over the fields and flower-beds with advantage; it is exercise natural... | |
 | 1876 - 508 páginas
...sought, Hath lost its charm from being caught; For every touch that wooed its stay, Hath brushed its brightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and beauty...shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 páginas
...that wooed its stay Hath brushed its brighest hues away, Till, charm and hue and beauty gone, T is left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? 230 AND ESTRANGEMENT. 231 Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty,... | |
 | Richard John Raymond, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1876 - 178 páginas
...sought, Hath lost its charm by being caught ; For every touch that woo'd its stay, Hath brushed its brightest hues away ; Till charm, and hue, and beauty gone, 'Tis left to fly or fall alone. And lovelier things have mercy shown, To every failing, but their own. THE storm, though somewhat abated,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 páginas
...that wooed its stay Hath brushed its brighest hues away, Till, charm and hue and beauty gone, 'T is left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing or bleeding...shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before i Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 páginas
...fiercely sought Hath lost its charm by being caught, For every touch that woo'd its stay Hath brush'd its brightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and beauty...shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 páginas
...fiercely sought Hath lost its charm by being caught, For every touch that woo'd its stay Hath brush'd its brightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and beauty...shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 páginas
...that wooed its stay Hath brushed its brightest hues away, Till, charm and hue and beauty gone, "Г is , I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used...their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was soar From rose to tulip as before Í Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 páginas
...fiercely sought Hath lost its charm by being caught, For every touch that woo'd its stay Hath brush'd its brightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and beauty gone, 'Tis left to fly or faU alone, With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 páginas
...every touch that woo'd its stay Hath hrush'd its hrightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and heauty he ripe green valleys with destruction's splmters ; Damming hleeding hreast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to... | |
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