 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...panting heart and tearful eye: So beauty lures the full-grown child, With hue as bright and wing as wild; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. BYRON. On life's gay stage, one inch above the grave, The proud run up and down in quest of eyes ;... | |
 | London female mission - 1840 - 478 pages
...awaits those who indulge in these idle vagaries of the fancy. Is it not as a dream when one awaketh ? A chase of idle hopes and fears Begun in folly, closed in tears. These idle dreamers awake in sorrow, because they have never reflected upon the true purpose of human... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...heart aud tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full-grown child, With hue as bright, and whig as wild . betray 'd, Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...heart and tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full-grown child, With hue as bright, and wing as wild ; mine, and you behold me ! Ulr. I behold The prosperous and beloved Siegendorf, Lord of betray'd, * Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace, From Infant's play,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 548 pages
...; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd, Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace, Erom infant's play, and man's caprice : /The lovely toy so fiercely sought \Hath lost its charm by... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 620 pages
...much more for the world than for the chimney corner ; and the pursuit of it has well been described as A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. * * * * The lovely toy so fiercely sought Hath lost its charm by being caught ; For every touch that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1844 - 186 pages
...heart and tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full-grown child With hue as bright, and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed...the maid, A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play, or man's caprice : The lovely toy so fiercely sought Has lost its charm by being caught,... | |
 | Hawks Le Grice - Sculptors - 1844 - 466 pages
...heart and tearful eye , So Beauty lures the full grown child , With hue as bright and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears , Begun in folly , closed in tears. If won, to equal ills belrayed , Woe wails the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace , From infants play,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...heart and tearful eye :— So beauty lures the full-grown child With hue as bright, and wing as wild, A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed...the Maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play, or man's caprice : The lovely toy, so fiercely sought, Has lost its charm by being caught;... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...heart and tearful eye : So beauty lures the full-grown child. With hue as bright, and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd, Wo waits the insect and the maid, A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play,... | |
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Invites the young pursuer near. And leads him on from flower to flower, A weary chase and wasted hour, Then leaves him, as it soars on high, With panting heart and tearful eye: So beauty lures the full-grown child, With hue as bright, and wing as wild,... 
