 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer,...bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain : . . 1 fruitless mourn to him that can not hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain." and adds... | |
 | University magazine - 1854 - 788 pages
...therefore weepe, because we weeps in Tiine.* —Fitzgeffrey't Life of Drake, 1596. " I fruitless monrn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain." — Gray'* Sonnet on the death ofilr. Wett. "Her scver'd lips seem'd cut in Grecian stone, And all... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...these eyes require ; My lonely an9uish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast ike imperfect joys expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer,...; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitiest mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain.' It will easily... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1858 - 196 pages
...these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer,...complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLERKE. 1 fl ! where this silent marble weeps. A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 770 pages
...these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breatt the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happicr men ; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 384 pages
...these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect jiiyt expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer,...bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain. 1 fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain." It will easily... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 386 pages
...men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; . To warm their little loves the birds complain. ] fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain."1 It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value is the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...these eyes require: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer,...cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. The treatment of grief is highly conventional (nature is beautiful, but it is no longer beautiful to... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the busy race to chear, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields...bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain: / fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain? The five lines... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 370 pages
...submit to Heaven, And fruitless call on him — 'who cannot hear.' * * 'I fruitless mourn to him who [that] cannot hear, / And weep the more because I weep in vain.' Gray's exquisite Sonnet; in reading which it is impossible not to regret that he wrote only one [Thomas... | |
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The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys... 
