 Maturer Manhood now arrives, And other thoughts come on, But with the baseless hopes of Youth Its generous warmth is gone ; Cold calculating cares succeed, The timid thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye,...  Minor Poems, Ballads, and Joan of Arc - Page 368by Robert Southey - 1858 - 469 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1799 - 320 pages
...realities of truth. Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering, with an envious sigh; The faery dreams of youth. So reaches he the latter stage Of...pilgrimage, With feeble step and slow ; New ills. his latter stage await, And old experience learns too late, That all is vanity below. Life's vain delusions... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...thought the weary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of youth. So...Age remembers with a sigh The days that are no more. COME REST IN THIS BOSOM. T. Moore. rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! Tho' the herd have-iied... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...thought the wary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of youth. So...vain delusions are gone by, Its idle hopes are o'er, Vet age remembers with a sigh The days that are no more. SOCJTHEY. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. ERE on my bed... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1826 - 268 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of Truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of Youth. So...age remembers with a sigh The days that are no more. 1798. THE SOLDIER'S WIFE. DACTYLICS. WEARY way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart, Travelling painfully... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of Youth. So...Age remembers with a sigh The days that are no more. LOVE. FROM THE CURSE OF KERAMAH. THEY sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye ; Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of youth. So...experience learns too late That all is vanity below ; VOL. I. I Life's vain delusions are gone by, Its idle hopes are o'er, Yet age remembers with a sigh,... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Bade on the past he turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of youth. So...Yet age remembers with a sigh The days that are no шоге. SOUTHEY. THE WRYNECK. THE Wryneck derives its name from its peculiar habit of lengthening... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth; Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of youth. So...o'er, Yet age remembers with a sigh The days that arc no more. SONNET. Sleep, Silence' child, swesl father of soft rest, Prince whose approaci peace... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of youth. So...pilgrimage, With feeble step and slow ; New ills that lattei stage await, And old experience learns too late That all is vanity below. Life's vain delusions... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...; Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sign The happy dreams of youth. go reaches he the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage,...Its idle hopes are o'er, Yet age remembers with a sign The days that are no more. > , r,. SONNET. Sleep, Silence' child, awe* father of «oft «•{,... | |
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