 | Clara Lucas Balfour - Great Britain - 1854 - 422 pages
...he " wished he had written it" was indeed a triumph. The following is the poem referred to : — " Life ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And where, or how, or where we met, I own to me 'sa secret yet. * See " Life of Wordsworth, by his nephew... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Old age - 1854 - 252 pages
...immediate vicinity, at Hampstead. It was written in extreme old age, but with unfaded vigor of intellect. " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather, Tis hard to part where friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost both pang and tear : So, steal away, give little warning,... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - Arts, British - 1860 - 440 pages
...him more than once repeat the concluding hues of Mrs. Barbauld's " Address to Life."* Life ! we have been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...friends are dear; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; * I once met Mrs. Barbauld at the house of Mr. Wm. Vaughan, at Clapham. She was a little old lady,... | |
 | Francis Meredith - 1860 - 326 pages
...'where God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes.' " 170 CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH WE LOSE AN OLD FRIEND. " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and...hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill be a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not good night,... | |
 | 1861 - 50 pages
...say to the old Table, that " We've been long together, Through cloudy and through pleasant weatherTis hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear." Then my old friend will not look on me as mockingly as it does to night. In obedience however to the hideous... | |
 | English poetry - 1890 - 366 pages
...old worn-out stuff, which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. — Collins CLXV Life ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part j And when, or how, or where we met I own to me's a secret yet. Life! we've been long together Through... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...old worn-out stuff, which is threadbare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. — . Collins CLXV LIFE ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou...part ; And when, or how, or where we met I own to me 'sa secret yet. Life ! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'T... | |
 | Luther Goodyear Bingham - United States - 1863 - 240 pages
...wasted, no matter among whom it is spent, and for whom it is laid down. The poet has well said— " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh or tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not good-night ; but in... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - Old age - 1865 - 478 pages
...authors ; and compositions in prose and verse continued to be her favorite occupation to the last. LIFE ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou...part ; And when, or how, or where we met, I. own to me 'sa secret yet. Life ! we have been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather.... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - Old age - 1865 - 482 pages
...authors ; and compositions in prose and verse continued to be her favorite occupation to the last. LIFE ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou...part ; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me 'sa secret yet Life ! we have been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. T... | |
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Tis hard to part when friends are dear— • Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning. 
