 Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on...  A New Spirit of the Age - Page 25by Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1879 - 1154 pages
...circumstances depicted in that miserybreathing line from the Poet Laureate's pen, of which the scene is laid " in the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." It would be easy to mention many instances in which the horses exhibited at Kilburn showed their susceptibility... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 252 pages
...evermore. Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...is remembering happier things. voL. XXXIII. 3D S. voL. Xv. No. II. 31 Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1843 - 256 pages
...sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead,...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a do;, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the ram is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1846 - 254 pages
...evermore. Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead,...hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 326 pages
...their former happiness, says that such a memory is a crown of sorrow — " Drug thy memories lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof, Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To... | |
 | 1850 - 498 pages
...that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : "Drag thy memories, lest thoo learn it, list tliy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain i on the roof. Like a dog he hunts in dreams, anil tliou art .'taring at the wall. Where the dying... | |
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