Nor wonder if my time go thus Backward and most preposterous; Thou hast benighted me, thy set This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast my day, (though overcast Before thou had'st thy noon-tide past) And I remember must in tears, Thou scarce had'st seen... Poems and Psalms - Page xby Henry King - 1843 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...into showers. Nor wonder if my time go thus Backward and most preposterous ; Thou hast benighted me ; thy set, This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast...overcast Before thou hadst thy noontide past) And I remember must, in tears, Thou scarce hadst seen so many years As day tells hours ; by thy clear sun... | |
| Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...vita malorum, So that they well might boast, they carried heuce What riper ages lose, their innocence. You pretty losses, that revive the fate Which in your mother Death did antedate, O let my high,swoln grief distil on you The saddest drops of a parental dew: You ask no other dower... | |
| Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...business is : So I compute the weary hours With sighs dissolved into showers. Thou hast benighted me ; thy set This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast my day, (though overcast Before thou hast thy noon-tide past,) And I remember must in tears, Thou scarce hadst seen so many years As day... | |
| Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 pages
...business is : So I compute the weary hours With sighs dissolved into showers. Thou hast benighted me ; thy set This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast my day, (though overcast Before thou hast thy noon-tide past,) And I remember must in tears, Thou scarce hadst seen so many years As day... | |
| Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...sorrow knew. So that they well might boast they carried hence What riper ages lose, their innocence. You pretty losses, that revive the fate Which in your mother Death did antedate, O let my high-swoll'n grief distil on you The saddest drops of a parental dew : You ask no other dower... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - Authors, English - 1836 - 312 pages
...sorrow knew. So that they well might boast they carried hence What riper ages lose, their innocence. You pretty losses, that revive the fate Which in your mother Death did antedate, O let my high-swoll'n grief distil on you The saddest drops of a parental dew : You ask no other dower... | |
| Children - 1858 - 240 pages
...knew ; So that they well might boast, they carry'd hence What riper ages lose — their innocence. You pretty losses, that revive the fate, Which in your mother death did antedate. O let my high swol'n grief distill on you The saddest drops of a parental dew : You ask no other dower... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...into showers. 'Nor wonder if my time go thus Backward and most preposterous ; Thou hast benighted me, thy set This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast...day, (though overcast Before thou hadst thy noontide passed,) And I remember must in tears, Thou scarce hadst seen so many years As day tells hours; by... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...almost blind, for thee, lov'd clay, I languish out, not live the day, — Thou hast benighted me ; thy set This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast my day (though overcast Before thou hast thy noon-tide past), And I remember must, in tears, Thou scarce hadst seen so many years As day... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...almost blind, for theo, lov'd clay, I languish out, not live the day, — Thou hast benighted me ; thy set This eve of blackness did beget, Who wast my day (though overcast Before thou hast thy noon-tide past), And I remember must, in tears, Thou scarce hadst seen so many years Aa day... | |
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