A breath, a touch like this hath shaken. And ruder words will soon rush in To spread the breach that words begin ; And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smiling day ; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness round all they said;... A woman's story - Page 103by Anna Maria Hall - 1857Full view - About this book
| Thomas Moore - Bactria - 1817 - 416 pages
...Shadukiam. v. note, p. 160. Like ships, that have gone down at sea. When heav'n was all tranquillity ! A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, — or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish poetry - 1817 - 374 pages
...word unkind or wrongly taken—- Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this has shaken. And ruder words will soon rush in To spread...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could... | |
| 1817 - 522 pages
...word unkind or wrongly taken—- Oh ! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this has shaken. And ruder words will soon rush in To spread...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, — or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...cprcad the breach that words begin : And eyes forget the gentle ray They wore in courtship's smÚing day ; And voices lose the tone that shed A tenderness...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds,— or Eke the etram, That smiling left the mountain'» brow, As though its waters ne'er could... | |
| English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...ruder words will SOOD rush in, To spread the breach that words begin: And eyes forget the gentle rar They wore in courtship's smiling day ; And voices...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken cloudi — or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 422 pages
...sunny hour fall off, Like ships, that have gone down at sea, • When Heaven was all tranquillity ! A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, — or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 428 pages
...in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships, that have gone down at sea, When Heaven was all tranquillity ! A .something, light as air — a look, A word unkind...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, — or like the stream, That smiling left the mountain's brow, I.AU.A ROOKH. Yet, ere it reach... | |
| 1869 - 452 pages
...something light as air — a look, "A word unkind or lightly spoken." — "Till one by one " The sweetness of love are gone, "And hearts, so lately mingled, seem " Like broken clouds — or like the stream, "That smiling left the mountain's brow " As though its waters ne'er... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 326 pages
...or wrongly taken— Oh ! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shakenAnd ruder words will soon rush in ' To spread the breach...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds, — or like the stream, 'fhat smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...word unkind or wrongly taken — A love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this has shaken — And ruder words will soon rush in To spread...gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem Like broken clouds — or like the stream That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could... | |
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