 O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower to flower A weary chase and wasted hour, Then leaves him, as it soars on high, With panting heart and tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full-grown child, With...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Page 3871813Full view - About this book
 | William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...and beautiful of the species. Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flow'r to flow'r, A weary chase and wasted hour ; . Then leaves him,...soars on high, With panting heart and tearful eye.'' And even if obtained, how oft, " The lovely toy too fiercely sought, Has lost its charms by being caught... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1852 - 134 pages
...rising on its purple wing The insect queen of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmere, Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears." "8 BY THE EEV. JT HEADLET. PUBLISHED BY JOHN S. TAYLOR, 113 Nassau Street, New Turk. THE SACRED MOUNTAINS.... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...rising on its purple wing The insect-queen of eastern Spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...wild, A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, clos'd in tears. If won, to equal ills hetray'd, Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1852 - 628 pages
...hopes and pleasures, opens the sad "Vale of Tombs," consecrated to those who once joined in " That chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears," participating in all the gratifications and the vanities of beauty and of youth. Embosomed in trees,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...rising on its purple wing, The insect queen of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to eqnal ills betray'd, Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...rising on its purple wing The insect queen of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmere, Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. BEAUTY. ti/ So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...rising on its purple wing The insect queen " of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites lake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar...Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy won, to equal ills betray'd, Wo waits the insect and the maid— A life of pain, the loss of peace,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...rising on its purple wing The insect-queen of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd, Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...on its purple wing The insect queen ie of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmccr Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...full-grown child, With hue as bright, and wing as wild ; A chose of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd, Wo... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 90 pages
...rising on its purple wing The insect queen of Eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashraeer, Invites the young pursuer near; And leads him on from flower...soars on high, With panting heart and tearful eye." The poet thus, after saying, which is true, how full-grown children, that is men, are lured by things,... | |
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