A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring. Specimens of the British poets - Page 192by British poets - 1809Full view - About this book
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...A momentary bli>s<; bestow ; As waving fresh their gladsome wing, Wy weary soul they seem to sooth, simus se«n Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy margent green, Tiic paths of pleasure trace; Who... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...a second spring. 1 King Henry the Sixth, founder of the college. 1 And bees their honey redolent of spring. Say, father Thames, for thou hast seen Full...pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? . The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales, that from...blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their dadsome wine, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth 2, To breathe a second... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! Ah, fields belov.d in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray,d, A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from...redolent of joy and youth, > To breathe a second spring!" purpose : ' I have, in my passage to the grave, met with most of those joys of which a discoursive... | |
| John George Phillimore - Digesta - 1815 - 284 pages
...Where once my careless childhood stray'd A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from you blow, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring." As to the recollections of misfortune, they are numerous in the works of Young. But why do they appear... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 282 pages
...Where once my careless childhood stray'd, " A stranger yet to pain ! " I feel the gales that from you blow " A momentary bliss bestow; " As, waving fresh...their gladsome wing, " My weary soul they seem to sooth, " And, redolent of joy and youth, " To breathe a second spring." GRAY. These tender feelings,... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...'The gales are represented here as personified, and With wings from which they wave fresh odours. " Say, father Thames, (for thou hast seen Full many...pleasure trace) Who foremost now delight' to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave ? The captive linnet which enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1816 - 372 pages
...Where once my careless childhood strayM A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from you blow, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring." As to, the recollections of misfortune, they are numerous in the works of Young. But why do they appear... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...gales that from yon blow A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary sonl they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth,...seen Full many a sprightly race, Disporting on thy marges! green, The paths of pleasure trace,) Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy... | |
| Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...Ah, pleasing shade ! " Ah, fields belov'd in vmin ' " Where once mj careless childhood stray 'd, " A stranger yet to pain ! " I feel the gales that from ye blow " A momentary bliss bestow, " AM waving fresh their gladsome wing " My weary soul they sctm to tooth, " And, redolent of joy and... | |
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