 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, )et want her peer's ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 262 pages
...good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, jet want her peer's; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ;... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; — To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 266 pages
...good days, that might be better Spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ;t To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; . To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, jet want her peer's; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ;... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Authors - 1847 - 368 pages
...good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope; to pine with fear and sorrow; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To hate thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - England - 1849 - 326 pages
...soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To speed to-day — to be put back to-morrow — To feed on hope — to pine with fear and sorrow. SPENSER. • As Harry and Laura grew older, they were gradually treated like friends and companions... | |
 | Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - 548 pages
...good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares; To eat their hearts, with comfortless despairs:... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...good days, thai might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontenl ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princess' grace, yet wanl her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...I am certain I have a right to speak from experience. I know, if any one does, what it is. To speed to day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine on fear and sorrow.' I trust the day may come when the gentle princess in whose service I am, will... | |
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear... 
