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... Rosamund Gray, essays, letters, and poems - Page 273by Charles Lamb - 1857Full view - About this book
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 320 pages
...dear Coleridge, Your's, With unabated esteem, C. LAMB. POEMS. - ********* ******** SS f POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...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... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1822 - 430 pages
...tones of feeling, and which, I think, contain all the characteristic* of which I have been speaking. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...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
...feeling, and which, I think, contain all the characteristics of which I have been speaking. HESTER. When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...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... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 340 pages
...feeling, and 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, Th ough ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot... | |
| 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 Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...•. •. •. 433 The Wife's Trial; or, the Intruding Widow •. •. •. . •. 435 POEMS. HESTER. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...Black manhood comes, when turbulent guilty blisses Tend thee the kiss that poisons 'mid caressings. WHEN maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...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... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...Black manhood comes, when turhulent guilty hlisses Tend thee the kiss that poisons 'mid caressings. WHEN maidens such as Hester die. Their place ye may...supply. Though ye among a thousand try, With vain endeavour. A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I hy force he led To think upon the wormy... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - 826 pages
...continually in the world. They remind you of Charles Lamb's " Hester," one of their own sisterhood — " When maidens such as Hester die, Their place ye may...well supply, Though ye among a thousand try With vain endeavour. " Her parents held the Quaker rule, Which doth the human feeling cool ; But she was trained... | |
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