Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me,... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 5071840Full view - About this book
| Agriculture - 1899 - 462 pages
...evidently gone astray. The TM who wrote in Lalla Rhook — " 'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay, — I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away " — is evidently her " affinity," — and not the TM of the present... | |
| Emily Noyes Vanderpoel - Litchfield (Conn.) - 1903 - 628 pages
...youngest Miss Lovejoy looked very pretty. Her sister's prayerbook full of poetry, among the rest " I never loved a tree or flower But t' was the first to fade away." The same motto came to Caroline Lord at Mrs. Lord's party last winter — I should like to hear from Caroline.... | |
| English poetry - 1904 - 628 pages
...could not last, — 'T was bright, 't was heavenly, but 't is past ! O, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never...tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well,... | |
| English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...last, — T was bright, 't was heavenly, but 't is past! ( ). rvor thus, from childhood's hour, 1 'vo seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nursed :i dear ga/olle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well,... | |
| Helen Bayliss - 1904 - 310 pages
...her unhappy lot. uo Your Love is a Prescience of Evil " Oh ! even thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But... | |
| Sermons, American - 1904 - 804 pages
...have found in them an expression of this feeling : — "Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1905 - 524 pages
...always been the same with me," said Mr. Swiveller, "always. 'Twas ever thus, from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay, I never loved a tree or flower but 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear Gazelle, to glad me with ita soft black eye, but... | |
| Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - American literature - 1905 - 614 pages
...the rear! Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 1792-, 1822. Poetry:—Queen Mob, The Witch of... | |
| 1905 - 648 pages
...not last, 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! " O, ever thus, from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away. " I never nursed a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye, But... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1906 - 1198 pages
...;jirf. But the trail of the serpent is over them all. itnd. Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, l 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well... | |
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