 Now, Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.  The British Essayists - Page 174edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 430 pages
...thing he ever wrote, that it was a contrast which he viewed with the philosopby of a Christian. Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown : Starting and shiv'ring in... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...of the wood, But the green hills of Radnor will charm me no more ! PRESENTIMENT OF DEATH. BRUCE. Now Spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in... | |
 | 1822 - 376 pages
...returns, but not to me returns The vernal year my better days have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. BRUCE. A FEW weeks before the death of Mrs. Elton, a Mr. Lloyd, a Quaker, who was travelling with his... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...congenial with its pure and lofty the morbid sensibility which compel» aspirations. THE MIRROR. " Now Spring returns— but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And ajl the joys of life with health are flown ! " Wasting and shiv'ring... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...poem on his own approaching death ; with the latter part of •which I shall conclude this paper. Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in rny breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shivering in th' unconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 334 pages
...death ; with the latter part of which I shall conclude this paper. Now spring returns ; but not to roe returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...returns— but not to me returns The vernal joy my hetter years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, .And all the joys of life with health are flown ! " Wasting and shiv'ring in the inconstant wind ; Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...No anxious wishes e'er disturb'd my ease; Heav'n gave content and health—I ask'd no more. XVI. Now Spring returns: but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. XVII. Starting and shiv'ring... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...the Elegy oo the Return of Spring, gives that poem a deep and peculiar interest ODE TO SPRING. Now Spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shir'ring in... | |
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