 But when the stalk is snapt, the rose must bend. The tallest flower that skyward rears its head Grows from the common ground, and there must shed Its delicate petals. Cruel fate, too surely, That they should find so base a bridal bed, Who lived in virgin...  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 270edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 696 pages
...they should find so base a bridal bed, Who lived in virgin pride, so sweetly and purely.. 4 She had a brother, and a tender father, And she was loved,...all were glad to look on, men and maids, Yet no one claim'd — as oft in dewy glades The peering primrose, like a sudden gladness, Gleams on the soul... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 176 pages
...lived in virgin pride, so sweet and purely. She had a brother, and a tender father, And she was lov'd, but not as others are From whom we ask return of love, — but rather As one might love a dream ; a phantom-fair Of something exquisitely strange and rare, Which all were glad to look on, men and maids,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 180 pages
...in virgin pride, so sweet and purely. 40 She had a brother, and a tender father, And she was lov'd, but not as others are From whom we ask return of love, — but rather As one might love a dream ; a phantom-fair Of something exquisitely strange and rare, Which all were glad to look on, men and maids,... | |
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...and a tender father, And she was lov'd, but not as others are From whom we ask return of love,—but rather As one might love a dream ; a phantom fair...all were glad to look on, men and maids, Yet no one claim'd—as ot't, in dewy glades The peering primrose, like a sudden gladness, Gleams on the soul—yet... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
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...FIRST GRIEF; OR, RECOLLECTIONS OF A BELOVED SISTK1J. 51 J&mm nnfr BY A PROVINCIAL SURGEON. " She had a brother and a tender father, And she was loved,...glad to look on, men and maids, Yet no one claimed." HARTLEY COLERTDGE. BATH: BINNS AND GOODWIN. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. EDINBURGH : OLIVER AND BOYD.... | |
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 | 1856 - 754 pages
...That they should find so base a bridal bed, Who lived in virgin pride, so sweet and purely. She had a brother, and a tender father. And she was loved,...sudden gladness, Gleams on the soul, yet unregarded fudes ; The joy is ours, but all its own the sadness. 'Tis vain to say, her worst of grief is only... | |
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