 The cup was all fill'd, and the leaves were all wet, And it seem'd to a fanciful view To weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd, And...  Poems - Page 284by William Cowper - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...rudely , alas! I snapp d it ^-it tell to the ground . 5. This elegant rose , had I shaken it less, Some act by the delicate mind ; Regardless of wringing...and breaking a heart , Already to sorrow resign'd . Might have bloom'd with its owner awhile : And the tear that is wip'd with a little address, May... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapp d it — it fell to the ground. 4. And such, I exclaiiM'd, is the pitiless part, Some act by the delicate mind...and breaking a heart, Already to sorrow resign'd. 5. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloom'd with its owner awhile : And the tear... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...from these, general notions and delicacy of thought and happy words. Feiton. And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind...of wringing and breaking a heart Already to sorrow resigned. Cowper. But in his delicate form — a dream of Love, Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1830 - 374 pages
...weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seized it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and...This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloom'd with its owner a while ; And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...weep for the buds it had left, with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. I hastily seiz'd it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and...drown'd ; And, swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas 1 I snapp'd it— it fell to the ground. And such, I exclaim'd, is the pitiless part Some act, by a... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...for the buds it had left with regref , On the flourishing bush where it grew\ SI hastily seiz'd if, unfit as it was For a nosegay', so dripping and drown'd And swinging it rudely', too rudely', aW ! I snapp?d it*— it felf to the ground\ 4 And such', I exclaim'd', is the pitiless parf, Some... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...weep for the buds it had left with regret, On the flourishing bush where it grew. t. I hastily seiz'd it, unfit as it was For a nosegay, so dripping and drown'd ; And swino-ing it rudely, too rudely, alas! I snapped it— it fell to the ground. 4. And such, 1 exclaim'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas ! I snapped it, it fell to the ground. And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind,...of wringing and breaking, a heart Already to sorrow resigned. This elegant rose, had I shaken it less, Might have bloomed with its owner awhile ; And the... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 336 pages
...attempted to retreat — it was too late — she sank insensible ! CHAPTER VIII. " And such" I exclaimed, " is the pitiless part Some act by the delicate mind....of wringing and breaking a heart Already to sorrow resigned !" CowriR. Life — inexplicable essence ! Fleeting from the gay — abiding with the sad... | |
 | Tasmania - 1833 - 388 pages
...Tells your comrade has started hi his prey. OAT CRITICISM. " And such, I exclaim'd, is the pittiless part. Some act by the delicate mind, Regardless of...wringing and breaking a heart Already to sorrow resign'd !" It has long occurred to me as being egregiously anomalous, that my countrymen, who, in most instances,... | |
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