 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...swelling with distress and pain, To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...swelling with distress and pain To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? Ask the faithful youth W'hy the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
 | Rowland Mainwaring - 1838 - 528 pages
...Akenside, in his " Pleasures of Imagination," has described this feeling very 'pathetically :— " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her, whom long he loved, So often fills his arms; so often draws His lonely footsteps, at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1838 - 352 pages
...together, and how sweet Their force, let Fortune's wayward hand the while Be kind or cruel ? f Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn, of her whom long he loved, 6 1 5 So often fills his arms ; s*o often draws His lonely footsteps, silent and unseen, To piy the... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...II. Does not the mind delight in the Invisible and the Ohtcure ? See ante, pages 286, 7, 8, 9. Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 414 pages
...very agony is often soothed by remembrances, which might, by some, be thought to increase it. " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd, So often fills his arms, so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...very agony is often soothed by remembrances, which might, by some, be thought to increase it. " Ask the faithful youth, Why the cold urn of her whom long he lov'd, So often fills his arms, so often draws Mis lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...liberal hands effuse Unenvied treasures, and the snowy wings Of Innocence and Love protect the scene * Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears... | |
 | 1841 - 360 pages
...swelling with distress and pain, To mitigate the sharp with gracious drops Of cordial pleasure ? Ask the faithful youth Why the cold urn of her whom long he loved So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...BOOK n. All the natural passions, grief, pity, and indignation, partake of a pleasing sensation. ASK h, believes pretences ; Lost in error, lives and dies. soya. THE PARTING KIBI ONF arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears... | |
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So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears * Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour... 
