 Forever — never! Never — forever!" There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed; O precious hours! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4971851Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 786 pages
...yonths and maidens dreaming strayed: O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time 1 Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told — • For ever — never ! Never— for ever ! ' All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of... | |
 | 1850 - 464 pages
...youths and maidens dreaming strayed. 0 precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever !" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 570 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed, Oh, precious hours ! O, golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — "Forever — never ! Never — forever !" From that chamber, clothed in white The bride came forth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" Prom that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding-night ; There, in that... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...and maiden's dreaming О precious hours! 0 golden prime, [stray d; And affluence of Love and Time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the Ancient...Timepiece told, " For ever— never ! Never— for ever Г From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth for wedding dight ; There, in that silent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night ; There, in that silent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; 0 precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pages
...but, if endowed with this variety of sentiment, it should be allowed to repeat something else than its " ever— never." " Even as a miser counts his...description as the text of his poem, it was worth the anthor's pains to carry it ont with a certain distinctuess and unity. Considering the tact and jndgment... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told, — "For ever — never ! Never — for ever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night ; There, in that... | |
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