| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...nights, Wherein you speed your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy ! Welcome,...look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight... | |
| Virginia - 1852 - 508 pages
...If a man were wiae to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, aud fixed eyes, A sigh, that piercing, mortifies ; A look that's fastened to the ground ; A tongue chained up without a sound. Fountain heads aud pathless groves, Places which pale Passion loves ; Moonlight... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...were wise to see 't, But only melancholy. Oh sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixSd eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain-heads and pathless proves, THE SATYR'S SPEECH, FROM THE " FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS."... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There 's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome,...fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies — A look that 's fastened to the ground — A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless... | |
| Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...-*-*- As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh,...melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A. sight that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a... | |
| Robert Bell - English drama - 1854 - 290 pages
...delights, -U- As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly J There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy! Welcome, folded arms, and fixdd eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1855 - 444 pages
...delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh,...eyes, A sigh, that piercing, mortifies, A look, that's fasten' d to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ! Fountain-heads, and pathless groves,... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1855 - 412 pages
...delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh,...sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyea, A sigh, that piercing, mortifies, A look. that's fasten' d to the ground, A tongue chain' d up,... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 pages
...delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh,...eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves,... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...Wherein you spend your folly! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Welcome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places... | |
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