 | English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...on the sea, The boldest steer but where their ports invite, But there are wanderers o'er Eternity " Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love Earth only for its earthly sake 7 By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, Which feeds it as a mother who doth mak* Or the pure bosom... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...belonged to them and not they to us, forgetting that they are made to perish, we to live for ever I " Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love Earth only for its earthly sake, I iy the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, Or the pure bosom of Its nursing lake, Which feeds it as... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...bark drives on and on, and anchored ne'e, shall be. LXXT. Is it not better, then, to be alone,' Aud love Earth only for its earthly sake? By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, z 8 Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair but froward... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. LXXI. Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love Earth...earthly sake ? By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, (1s) Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair but froward... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...love Earth only for its earthly sake ? By the hlue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, (18) Or the pure hosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair hut froward infaq^ her own eare, Kissing its erics away as these awake ; — Is it not hetter thus... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...But there are wanderers o'er eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. LXXI. Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love earth...earthly sake! By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone,' 8 Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother w.ho doth make A*fair but froward... | |
 | Agriculture - 1869 - 604 pages
...of our world. You will read those exquisite lines of the noble poet in reference to Lake Leman — " Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love earth...lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair, bat froward infant, her own care, Kissing its cries away as these awake." Beautiful and touching they... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchored ne'er shall be It is no better, then, to be alone, And love Earth only for...earthly sake ? By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, (18) Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair but froward... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...tin-re are wanderer* o'er eternity, W'hosc bark drive» on and ÖD, and ancnor'd ne'er bhall be. LXXL Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love earth only for iu earthly sake? Ry the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, *B Or tbe pure bosom of its nursing lake,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...But there arc wanderers o'er eternity, Whose hark drives on andou,audauchor'd ne'er shall he. LXXI. Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love earth...its earthly sake? By the blue rushing of the arrowy Khone,'" Or the pure bosom of ils nursing Tikf, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make Л fair but... | |
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The race of life becomes a hopeless flight To those that walk in darkness : on the sea The boldest steer but where their ports invite; But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. 670 LXXI Is it not better,... 
