 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...measures, wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled air; But t.hou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the strain prolong;... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pages
...'grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'T was sad, by fits; by starts, 'twas wild. 5. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail: Still would her touch the... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...grief beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air : 'Twas sad, by fits; — by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...grief beguiled : 30 A solemn, strange and mingled air ; 'T was sad by fits — by starts "t was wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure, 35 And bade the lovely scene at distance hail ! Still would her touch... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...his grief beguiled ; solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. Uut thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the... | |
 | William Colgrove Kenyon - 1849 - 352 pages
...verbcor its first auxiliary. EXAMPLES. Who art thou t Who must it be ? What was it ? Who was she ? But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his fanlts leaned to virtue's side. (2.) Tn... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air : 'T was sad, by fits ; — by starts, 't was wild. • But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure 1 Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 pages
...his grief beguiled, A solemn, strange, and mingled air; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. 5. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure 1 Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...л sieve, And hope without an object cannot live, r. COLEBIDOE — Work Without Hope. But thou, О Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure. And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! s. COLLINS — Ode on the Passions.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...wild. But thou, 0 Hope, with ryes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd prnmis'd pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...would her touch the strain prolong ; And from the rock-н. the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still, through all the song ; 10 20 30 ' No farther... | |
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twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail... 
