 WHEN maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in...  The American Whig Review - Page 5481848Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...music of his Old Familiar Faces, its monody is heard. EDWARD DOWDEN. HESTER. v~" When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...sunshine of the peaceful mind. CHARLES LAMB. 1775—1834. HESTER.— A REMEMBRANCE. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more has she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...wrote from his feelings, and that he loved old books and old times. To Hester. When maidens such ns Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A mouth or more she hath been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1881 - 892 pages
...1 remain, My dear Coleridge, Yours, With unabated esteem, C. LAMB. POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply,...led To think upon the wormy bed, And her together. A spinngy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...mournful music of his Old Familiar Faces, its monody is heard. EDWARD DOWDEN. HESTER. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...king, Who fancy so unjust a thing ! CCLXXXIV. CHAELES LAMB, 1775—1834. 1. HESTEB. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour ; A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more she hath been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed, And ber together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 508 pages
...unhamper'd, Made each a leg, then fairly scamper'd. CL MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...thy smiles used to do for thyself, my sweet Heart — My Kate? UB Browning. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 pages
...to order for party journals, flows once more in its native purity and sweetness: " When maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
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