 t is in vain — " I cannot weave, as once I wove — " So wilder'd is my heart and brain " With thinking of that youth I love ! " • Again the web she tried to trace, But tears fell o'er each tangled thread ; While, looking in her mother's face, Who...  The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore - Page 14by Thomas Moore - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Philippe Werner Loos - 1827 - 396 pages
...finger,- stray'd She weeping turi-ed away, and said: ft Oh, my sweet Mother — t'is in vain.— I can not weave, as once I wove, So wilder'd is my heart and brain \Vith thinking of that youth I lave. Nous regrettons de ne pouvoir citer un plus grand nombre décès... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 470 pages
...looking in her mother's face, Who o'er her watchful luan'd, she said : • Oh, my sweet mother, ' t is in vain— I cannot weave, as once I wove — So wilder'd is my heart and brain With thinking of Hi. ч youth I love!» A silence follow'd this sweet air, As each in tender musing stood, Thinking,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pages
...weeping turn'du way, and said ; « Oh ! my sweet mother — Ч is in vain — I cannot weave as once 1 wove — So wilder'd is my heart and brain With thinking of that youth I love!» ' Again the web she tried to trace, (tut tears fell o'er each langlud thread, While, looking in her... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 296 pages
...Unknowing where her fingers stray'd, She weeping turn'd away, and said ; " Oh, my sweet mother — 't is in vain — " I cannot weave as once I wove — "...and brain " With thinking of that youth I love!"* Again the web she tried to trace, But tears fell o'er each tangled thread, \Vhile, looking in her mother's... | |
 | Robert Bland - English poetry - 1833 - 468 pages
...KpeKeiv TOV larov, irody Safitloa iraiSos, fipaSivav Si 'Aippociruv. " Oh, my sweet mother — 't is in vain — I cannot weave, as once I wove. So 'wilder'd...heart and brain With thinking of that youth I love." I have attempted, in these four lines, to give some idea of that beautiful fragment of Sappho, which... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 366 pages
...languor hung her head, Unknowing where her fingers stray'd, She weeping turn'd away, and said, " Oh, njy sweet Mother — 'tis in vain — " I cannot weave,...heart and brain " With thinking of that youth I love ! " * Again the web she tried to trace, But tears fell o'er each tangled thread; While, looking in... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 382 pages
...Oh, my sweet Mother — 'tis in vain — " I cannot weave, as once I wove — EVENINGS IN GREECE. " So wilder'd is my heart and brain " With thinking of that youth I love ! " * Again the web she tried to trace, But tears fell o'er each tangled thread ; While, looking in... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 pages
...I wove — " So wilder'd is my heart and brain " With thinking ofthat youth I lore!"* Again the weh she tried to trace, But tears fell o'er each tangled...So wilder'd is my heart and brain " With thinking ofthat youth 1 1оте!" ' A silence follow'd this sweet air, As each in tender musing stood, Thinking,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...love-sick languor hung her heaó, Unknowing where her finger's stray'd, She weeping turn'd away, and illis 1 love!"^ Again the web she tried to trace, But tears fell o'er each tangled thread; While, looking... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Sacred songs - 1849 - 328 pages
...weave, as once I wove — " So wilder'd is my heart and brain " With thinking of that youth I love !"1 Again the web she tried to trace, But tears fell o'er...heart and brain " With thinking of that youth I love !" 1 I have attempted, in these four lines, to give some idea of that heautiful fragment of Sappho,... | |
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