 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 pages
...life again, Saying- only, "It might have been." 13. Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge ! God pity them both ! and pity...us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall ; For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : " IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN I" Ah, well ! for us all... | |
 | 1874 - 586 pages
...may match with the workmanship of any master-hand. Alas for maiden, alas for judge, For rich repiner and household drudge ! God pity them both, and pity...dreams of youth recall : For of all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these — " It might have been ! " Ah well ! for us all some sweet hope lies... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1874 - 500 pages
...been." Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repinerand household drudge I God pitv them hoth ! and pity us all. Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest nre these : " It might have been!" Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...The Mantle of St. John De Matha. Making their lives a prayer. On receiving a Bashet of Sea Mosses, For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : " It might have been ! " Maud Muller. EDGAR A. POE. 1811-1849. Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above... | |
 | William Mathews - History - 1874 - 376 pages
...Tightness or good in it, is with me now, to help me in my grasp of this art and its vision. — Ib. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been !" WHITTIER. The well-known, worn-out topics of consolation and of encouragement are... | |
 | Bernard Bigsby - English language - 1874 - 182 pages
...burning plumes outspread, Leaps on the back of my sailing rack, "When the morning star shines dead." " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : It might have been." " Gold, still gold ! it haunted her yet — At the Golden Lion the inquest met —... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1874 - 386 pages
...rightness or good in it, is with me now, to help me in my grasp of this art and its vision. — J6. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been I " "WHITTIEB. The well-known, worn-out topics of consolation and of encouragement... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...life again, Saying only, " It might have been ! " Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge ! God pity them both ! and pity...It might have been ! " Ah, well ! for us all some swect hope lies, Deeply buried from human eyes ; And, in the hereafter, angels may Koll the stone from... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...The Mantle of St. John De Matha. Making their lives a prayer. On receiving a Basket of Sea Mosses. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : " It might have been ! " Maud Mitllcr. Give lettered pomp to teeth of time, So Bonny Boon but tarry ; Blot... | |
 | Recitations - 1876 - 734 pages
...of life again, Buying only, " Jt might have been." Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both ! and pity...words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: " It might have been I' Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes; And, in... | |
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God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : 
