Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on... Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Sida 2421843Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 sidor
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 sidor
...things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, I36 Like a dog, he hmits in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where...the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass hefore thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows, to the tears that thou... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 sidor
...devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, ami when the rain is 011 the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 sidor
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the rlead unhappy night, and when the rain h on the roof. Like a dog, be hunts in dreams, and thou art,... | |
| 1876 - 508 sidor
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp fjickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 sidor
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 sidor
...devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, Jn the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a dog. he hunts in dreams, and thou... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 sidor
...through the roof of which the rain drops perpetually." There is a worse thing even than wretchedness in " the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof," and that is, when the rain comes through. Xantippe, as M. St. Marc Girardin takes it, was not the only... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 sidor
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows lise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows,... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1877 - 380 sidor
...crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." So that one is tempted to continue the strain — " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." My heart is full enough to bid him a cordial and grateful farewell — too full to continue a rhapsody... | |
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