 WHEN maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in...  The American Whig Review - Page 5481848Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 316 pages
...remain, My dear Coleridge, Your's, With unabated esteem, C. LAMB. POEMS. POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye 'may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 320 pages
...Your's, With unabated esteem, C. LAMB. POEMS. - ********* ******** SS f POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | 1821 - 410 pages
...think, contain all the characteristics of which I have been speaking. HESTER. WIIKV maidens such :is Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath slie been dead. Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 pages
...sect. She was of a nature so sprightly and strong, that the poet, for some time, says he could not By force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...and which, I think, contain all the characteristic* of which I have been speaking. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | 1824 - 340 pages
...which, I think, contain all the characteristics of which I have been speaking. HESTER. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy... | |
 | 1850 - 428 pages
...may not well supply, Though \e (inning a thousand try. With vain endeavour. A month or more hath *he been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon...And her together* A springy motion in her gait, A ri>ing t>tep, diil indicate Of pride and joy no common rale, Tim! ilu-hV her spirit. I know not by... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...unbeautified, Disorder'd, marr'd, where such strange tbiegt acted. Dorms. HESTER, WHEN maidens euch as Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A springy motion in her gait, A rising мер, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1858 - 672 pages
...of death," &c. Chronicles of Clocernook. What kinship hath mid Summer with the grave? The Recluse. —Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And lier together. C. LAMB: Hester. Br common consent the image of death is connected with what is chill,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...Hester die, Their place ye may not well supply, Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And iier together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common... | |
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