| Charlotte Smith - Elegiac poetry, English - 1786 - 68 pages
...humanity! fo frail, fo fair, Are the fond vifions of thy early day, Till tyrant paffion, and corrofive care, Bid all thy fairy colours fade away! Another May new buds and flowers fhall bring ; Ah! why has happinefs — no fecond fpring? [ 4 ] SONNET III. TO A NIGHTINGALE. melancholy... | |
| Charlotte Smith - Poetry - 1789 - 144 pages
...humanity ! fo frail, fo fair, Are the fond vifions of thy early day, Till tyrant paffion, and corrofive care, Bid all thy fairy colours fade away ! Another May new buds and flowers fliall bring ; Ah ! why has happinefs no fecond Spring ? SONNET III. TO A NIGHTINGALE. iTOOR melancholy... | |
| 1792 - 822 pages
...Humanity ! fo frail, fo fair, Are the fond vifions of thy early day, Till tyrant paffion, and corrofive care, Bid all thy fairy colours fade away ! Another May new buds and flowers (hall bring ; Ah ! why has happinefs — no fécond fpring ? Untbtj FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. LONDON, Nwen-.btr... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...! fo frail, fo fair, . • Are the fond vifions of thy early day. Till tyrant palfion and corrofive care Bid all thy fairy colours fade away! Another May new buds and flow'rs ilia!l bring; Ah ! why has happinels — no fécond Spring ? § 132. SbouUi the lone Wanderer.... | |
| W. M. - Children - 1801 - 356 pages
...humanity ! fo frail, fo fair, Are the fond vifions of thy early day, 'Till tyrant Pafiion, and corrofive Care, Bid all thy fairy colours fade away ! Another May new buds and flow'rs ftiall bring ; Ah! why has happinefs no fecond Spring? MRS. C. SMITH. THE ROSE. THE Rofe had... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...plain, Till spring again shall call forth every bell, And dress with humid hands her wreaths again. — Ah! poor humanity! so frail, so fair, Are the fond...fairy colours fade away ! Another May new buds and flow'rs shall bring; Ah ! why has happiness— no second Spring ? § 133. Should the lone Wanderer.... | |
| 1821 - 438 pages
...with humid hands her wreaths again. Ah ! poor Humanity ! so frail, so fair, Are the fond visions »f thy early day, Till tyrant Passion, and corrosive Care, Bid all thy airy colours fade away ! Another May, new buds and flow'rs shall bring ; Ah ! why has happiness—... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...plain, Till Spring again shall call forth every hell, And dress with humid hands her wreaths again.— Ah ! poor Humanity ! so frail, so fair, Are the fond...Till tyrant Passion, and corrosive Care, Bid all thy airy colours fade away ! Another May new buds and flowers shall bring ; Ah ! why has happiness —... | |
| 1822 - 496 pages
...every bell. And dress with bumid hands her wreathagain. — Ah ! poor Humanity ! so frail, so fair, Arc the fond visions of thy early day, Till tyrant Passion, and corrosive Care, Bid all thy airy colours fade away ! Another May new buds and flowers shall bring ; Ah ! why has happineu — no... | |
| Cecilia Mary Caddell - 1825 - 1010 pages
...he was sensible while he did so of their insufficiency to heal the wounded heart. CHAPTER XVII. Ah 1 poor humanity ! so frail, so fair, Are the fond visions...shall bring ; Ah ! why has happiness no second Spring ? C. SMITR. THE present Baronet was the younger of two sons. His youth had been spent in gaiety and... | |
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