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" This Life, which seems so fair, Is like a bubble blown up in the air By sporting children's breath, Who chase it everywhere And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it... "
The Works of William Drummond, of Hawthornden: Consisting of Those which ... - Page 9
by William Drummond - 1711 - 303 pages
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The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life

William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 358 pages
...Who chase it every where, And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it sometimes seem of its own might Like to an eye of gold to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham

William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...Who chase it every where, And strive who can most motion it beqneath. And though it sometimes seem of its own might Like to an eye of gold to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 pages
...breath, Who chase it everywhere, And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it sometimes seem of its own might Like to an eye of gold to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. For when...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages
...breath, Who chase it everywhere, And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it sometimes seem of its own might Like to an eye of gold to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...Who chase it every where, And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it sometimes seems of its own might, Like to an eye of gold to be fixed there, And film to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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The Sacred Poets of England and America: For Three Centuries

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...Who chase it everywhere, And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it sometimes seems of its own might, Like to an eye of gold to be fixed there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

William Drummond - Poetry, Modern - 1856 - 386 pages
...breath, Who chase it everywhere, And strive who can most motion it bequeath : And though it sometime seem of its own might. Like to an eye of gold, to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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the poetical works of william drummond of hawthornden

william b. turnbull - 1856 - 402 pages
...breath, Who chase it everywhere, And strive who can most motion it bequeath : And though it sometime seem of its own might, Like to an eye of gold, to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

William Drummond - Poetry, Modern - 1856 - 382 pages
...breath, Who chase it everywhere, And strive who can most motion it bequeath : And though it sometime seem of its own might. Like to an eye of gold, to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is because it is so light. But in that...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 110

English literature - 1861 - 600 pages
...breath, Who chase it everywhere, And strive who can most motion it bequeath. And though it sometimes seem of its own might Like to an eye of gold to be fix'd there, And firm to hover in that empty height, That only is, because it is so light. But in that...
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