 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 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 long he lov'd So often fills his arms ; — so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 pages
...gentleness together, and how sweet Their force, let Fortune's wayward hand the while Be kind or cruel ? Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn, of her whom long he lov'd, 6i5 So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen, To pay... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 746 pages
...the gayest scenes the world could offer. " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her wliou^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 ? Oh ! he will tell thee that the wealth... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...passion, swelling with distress and pain To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? Ask the faithful youth W'hy 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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...passion swelling with distress and pain, To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...passion, swelling with distress and pain To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? 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... | |
 | Rowland Mainwaring - Bath (England) - 1838 - 528 pages
...Akenside, in his " Pleasures of Imagination," has described this feeling very 'pathetically :— " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her, whom...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... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 pages
...gentleness together, and how sweet Their force, let Fortune's wayward hand the while Be kind or cruel ? f Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn, of her whom long he loved, 6 1 5 So often fills his arms ; s*o often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen, To piy the... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...KEATS. II. Does not the mind delight in the Invisible and the Ohtcure ? See ante, pages 286, 7, 8, 9. Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom...fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears 1 Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...whose very agony is often soothed by remembrances, which might, by some, be thought to increase it. " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd, So often fills his arms, so often draws Mis lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
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Oh! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour... 
