Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1071821Full view - About this book
| 1833 - 742 pages
...interpreter a sigh ? As those who doat on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breasts — but place to die ; Thus the frail beings we would...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish." BYBON. It was in the decline of spring, between three and four months after I had taken possession... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 388 pages
...interpreter a sigh ? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, ! And place them on their breasts—but place to die— Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perislk" , • ,.ji ,„' that word, beautiful in all languages, but most so in yours — Amor mio... | |
| Catherine George Ward - 1834 - 596 pages
...wby With cypress branches lost thou wreath•d tby howen, And made thy best interpreter a sigh.' Ai those who dote on odours pluck the flowers And place them on their breast—but place to die.— Thos, the frail beings we would fondly cheri•h, Are laid within our... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 382 pages
...this world of ours, Which makes it fatal to be loved? ah! why With cypress branches hast thou wreath'd thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ?...odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breasts — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our... | |
| Beasley - 1836 - 208 pages
...what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? All? why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter...dote, on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on the breast — but place to die; And the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosom... | |
| lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836 - 336 pages
...is it in thi« world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ? As those who doat on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on the breast—but place to die ; And the frail beings... | |
| Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ? As those who doat on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to die — Thus the... | |
| lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836 - 336 pages
...is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ? As those who doat on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on the breast—but place to die ; And the frail beings... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...Lean always answer you in the question of Quatimozm to his minister — each being on his own coals.9 As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers. And place them on their breasts — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our... | |
| Celia Levetus, Marion Moss - Bible stories, English - 1840 - 966 pages
...is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter...who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them ou their breast—but place to die— Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish, Are laid within... | |
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