| 1855 - 846 pages
...duty and love and law. Then she took np her burden of life again, Saying only, " it might have been." Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner...the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongne or pen, The saddest are these : " It might have been ! ' Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 pages
...loving him for it. Indeed, it is almost enough to make us forgive that invidiously dreadful rhyme: " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been! ' " "Skipper Ireson's Bide," on the other hand, has much of the true ballad quality... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1855 - 440 pages
...only, "It might have been." Alu for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge I God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the...dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these : " It might have been I " Ah ! well for us all, some sweet hope lie*... | |
| David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - 1855 - 408 pages
...duty and love ancUaw. Then she took up the burden of life again, Saying only, "It might have been." Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge 1 God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words... | |
| 1857 - 686 pages
...love was law. •• Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, ' It might have been.' " Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner...youth recall. " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest aro these: 'It might have been!' "Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply... | |
| 1857 - 678 pages
...life again, Saying only, • It might have been.' "Ala« for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich rcpiner and household drudge ! " God pity them both ! and...youth recall. " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, Tho saddest are these: 'It might have been!' "Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply... | |
| 1857 - 694 pages
...again, Saying only, • It might have been.' • Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repioer and household drudge! " God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams ut'youth recall. " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest aro these: 'It might have been!'... | |
| Mary Wolcott Janvrin - 1857 - 416 pages
...cooling streams live longest in our hearts ! Well for us, if Regret walk not hand in hand with Memory ! For " Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : ' It might have been ! ' " Thus, in that hour, it was doubly bitter to the remorse-stricken man who bowed... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...duty, and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, " It might have been." Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner...of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or peu, The saddest are these : " It might have been !" Ah, well I for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 pages
...life again, Saying only, "It might have been." Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner'and household drudge! God pity them both ! and pity us...words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been !" All, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes ; And,... | |
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