 Comfort? comfort scorned of devils; this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on...  Poems - Page 100by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, I36 Like a dog, he hmits in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where...the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass hefore thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows, to the tears that thou... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, ami when the rain is 011 the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 588 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the rlead unhappy night, and when the rain h on the roof. Like a dog, be hunts in dreams, and thou art,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp fjickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, Jn the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a dog. he hunts in dreams, and thou... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1876 - 628 pages
...through the roof of which the rain drops perpetually." There is a worse thing even than wretchedness in " the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof," and that is, when the rain comes through. Xantippe, as M. St. Marc Girardin takes it, was not the only... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows lise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows,... | |
 | H. A. Page - 1877 - 386 pages
...crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." So that one is tempted to continue the strain — " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." My heart is full enough to bid him a cordial and grateful farewell — too full to continue a rhapsody... | |
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