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 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - English poetry - 1856 - 602 pages
...ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined, And count the silent moments as the}' pass: The winged moments, whose unstaying speed No art can stop, or in their course arrest; Dft morning dreams presage approaching fate; And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true; Led by pale... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined, And count the silent moments as they pass : The winged...with.- the dead And lay me down in peace with them at rest Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate; And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. Led... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1859 - 304 pages
...are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, The winged moments, whose unstaying speed No art can...And lay me down in peace with them that rest. Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true ; Led by pale... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined, And count the silent moments as they pass : 18 The winged moments, whose unstaying speed No art can...shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down at peace with them at rest. 19 Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning-dreams, as... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 290 pages
...inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined, And count the silent moments as they pass : ' The...course arrest ; Whose flight shall shortly count me ivith the dead. And lay me dcrnin in peace witb them at rest. ' Oft morning-dreams presage approaching... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 334 pages
...inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what 1 was, Beneath some blasted tree 1 lie reclined, And count the silent moments as they pass. ' The winged...in their course arrest ; Whose flight shall shortly eount me with the dead, And luy »;c do;vn in peace with them at rest. ' ( >ft morning.dreams presage... | |
 | Michael Bruce - Poets, Scottish - 1865 - 292 pages
...inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined, And count the silent moments as they pass' The winged moments, whose unstaying speed No art can stop, qr in their course arrest ; Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...inconstant wind, meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined, and count the silent moments as they pass, the winged...dead, and lay me down in peace with them that rest. 322 Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate; and morning-dreams, as poets tell, are true : led... | |
 | Edward Parmelee Smith - United States - 1869 - 602 pages
...inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined, And count the silent moments as they pass; — "The...And lay me down in peace with them that rest. "Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true; — Led by pale... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...pass : The winged moments, whoso unstaying speed No art can stop, or in their course arrest ; Whoso ultriness, at rest. Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate ; And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.... | |
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