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
| David James Burrell - Presbyterian Church - 1909 - 366 pages
...The lament of Thomas Moore finds a response in every heart: 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,... | |
| Commercial travellers - 1909 - 448 pages
...specially appealed to what is termed their grosser natures : — 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. A feature, too, with these individuals is to look well ahead, and when... | |
| Caleb Jones, Julia Anna Jones - 1909 - 226 pages
...every day he clad When he put on his clothes." Al: "Oh! '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." Doc Styles: "Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice... | |
| William Henry Winslow - 1911 - 250 pages
...to his messmates, and pretended to weep, as he repeated, " 'Twas ever thus in childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." He was chaffed and jeered at being cut out by an army man — an unusual... | |
| Edgar Meck Dilley - Bharbazonia (Imaginary place) - 1911 - 424 pages
...free! Solonika was trusting me! CHAPTER XII THE RENUNCIATION 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! — Moore: Lalla Rookh. WHEN I returned to Castle Framkor that evening... | |
| Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...destroy'd ! 1231 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 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 ! 1232 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers DISCONTENT. I know a discontented... | |
| Maggs Bros - Antiquarian booksellers - 1913 - 936 pages
...Thee, A conquering King again I • • • « • " 'Twos ever thus, since childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away ! " " Old Woman, Old Woman, will you let us kiss you, Yes, Sir I yes,... | |
| Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...above." [Cf. Thomas Moore (TJie Fire-worshippers) : — " 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." "' See translations by WR Paton in "The Loeb Classical Library." 326... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...receive. MONTGOMERY — The World before the Flood. Canto V. 23 Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've 'twas the first to fade away. MOORE — Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers. (See also MOORE under GAZELLE)... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 578 pages
...and life's dull play is . o'er.' — POPE. ' THUS FVER. ' 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... | |
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