 | 1818 - 638 pages
...this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ, is writ,— Would it were worthier ! but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt, is... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish 'd which hath lit My midnight lamp— and what is writ, is writ, — Would it were worthier ! but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flU Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt, is fluttering,... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - Derbyshire (England) - 1899 - 318 pages
...protracted drearn : The torch shall he extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ is writ — Would it were worthier ! but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwells, is... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish 'd which hath lit My midnight lamp — and what is writ, i< writ, — Would it were worthier ! but I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me— and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt, is fluttering,... | |
 | DAVID WILLISON - 1818 - 572 pages
...worthier ! but I am not now That which I have been — and' my visions flit Less palpably before me —and the glow Which in my spirit- dwelt, is fluttering, faint, and low. Farewell -ha word that must be, and hath been — A sound which makes us linger ; — yet— farewell ! Ye !... | |
 | 1818 - 502 pages
...Ihr moral of hit strain. That which 1 have been....and ray visions flit Lea palpably before roe_«and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt, is fluttering, faint* and low. THE FRANKLIN MANUSCRIPTS. From the New Monthly Magazine, April, ItU. MONTHLY BEGISTER OF LITERATURE,... | |
 | 1818 - 354 pages
...worthier ! hut I am not now That which I have been — -and my visions ilit Less palpably before me— and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt, is fluttering, faint, and low. Is not there a heavenly melody of language and thought in these lines? But with the shepherd in Virgil,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...Wortheir ! but I am not now That which I have been— and my visions flit Less palpably before me — and the glow Which in my spirit dwelt, is fluttering, faint, and low. CLXXXVI. Farewell ! a word that must be , and hath been — A sound which makes us linger ; — -yet... | |
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My task is done, my song hath ceased, my theme Has died into an echo; it is fit The spell should break of this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguish'd which hath lit My midnight lamp— and what is writ, is writ; Would it were worthier; but... 
