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" The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild ; Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers. "
The Optimist - Page 69
by Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 273 pages
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...upon its own sweet self, Till it becomes all music murmurs of. In another fragment he ealls it — Tho silver key of the fountain of tears. Where the spirit...Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Cure, like a drowsy child. Is laid asleep in flowers. And then again this melancholy traee of the sad...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 1

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 396 pages
...upon its own sweet self, Till it becomes all music murmurs of. In another fragment he calls it — The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...brain is wild ; Softest grave of a thousand fears, And then again this melancholy trace of the sad thronging thoughts, which were the well whence he drew...
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Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Volumes 3-4

1846 - 860 pages
...singularly susceptible, is equally fanciful and characteristic : ' The silver key of the fountain of teara. Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild, Softest grave of a thousand feara, Where their mother Care, like a weary child, Is laid asleep in flowers.' Milton's deep sense...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 450 pages
...upon its own sweet self, Till it becomes all music murmurs of. In another fragment he calls it — The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...a thousand fears, Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers. And then again this melancholy trace of the sad thronging...
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Aline: An Old Friend's Story

Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 pages
...the regions dim Of rapture, as a boat with swift sails winging His way adown some many winding river. The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...a thousand fears, Where their mother Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers." SHELLEY. ALINE, on her sixteenth birthday, was in London,...
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Aline: An Old Friend's Story

Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 pages
...the regions dim Of rapture, as a boat with swift sails winging His way adown some many winding river. The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...a thousand fears, Where their mother Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers." SHELLEY. ALINE, on her sixteenth birthday, was in London,...
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Notes and Queries

1892 - 688 pages
...WANTED. — The silver key of the fountain of tears Where tbe apirit drinks till the brain il wild, The softest grave of a thousand fears Where their mother Care, like a weary child, IB laid asleep with flowera, WT Better not to be than not lo be noble. 8. JAKES A. SALIER. Down-falling...
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Mary Seaham, Volume 508

Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1852 - 926 pages
...with such pure, unmingled pleasure as had this sweet music on the present occasion inspired her. " Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers." Once, at the close of a peculiarly beautiful ballad, she...
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Ada Gresham

Mary Anna Needell - 1853 - 950 pages
...for a reply, he repeated the words with his usual exquisite feeling, and delicate perfection. — " Silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild ; Softest bed of a thousand fears, Where their mother Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers."...
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Odd Fellows' Literary Casket, Volumes 1-2

1854 - 794 pages
...than has ever been heard by mortal ear, or ever will be to the end of time. Shelley calls music, " The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...brain is wild ; Softest grave of a thousand fears, When their mother, Care, like a weary child, Is laid asleep in flowers." BUNYAN AND THE QUAKER. —...
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