 Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.  Poems - Page 175by Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 319 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...roll ; The rising motion of an infant ray Shot glimm'ring through the cloud, and promised day. PRIOR. Go — you may call it madness, folly,— You shall...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay ! ROGERS. Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden... | |
 | 1875 - 432 pages
...dwell, O, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! CAPTAIN CHARLES MOERIS. 2.. 5 TO . /""* O — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. O, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...of Drake. * Compare Bacon, Of Adversity ; Goldsmith, The Captivity ; Wordsworth's Prelude, Book ix. Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away I There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. Mine be a cot beside the hill... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 694 pages
...as lyrical effnsions proper. One would be reminded by Fletcher's lyric of Rogers' rather namby-pamby •There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay," were it not that Fletcher's song is in intention dramatic, which Rogers' lines are not 1 Mr. Fleay,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 658 pages
...effusions proper. One would be reminded by Fletcher's lyric of Rogers' rather namby-pamby • There 's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay,' were it not that Fletcher's song is in intention dramatic, which Rogers* lines are not. 1 Mr. Fleay,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...Thy thoughts belong to heaven and thce ! And may the secret of thy soul Remain within its sanctuary ! O, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1876 - 798 pages
...that indications are given of that frame of mind depicted by Rogers in the once popular stanza — Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. I have been furnished with carefully prepared tables of the progress of crime in MANCHESTER and BIRMINGHASI.... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 424 pages
...summer to dwell, O, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! CAPTAIN CHARLES MORRIS, TO . • O — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. O, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | George Etell Sargent - 1876 - 440 pages
...responded to the poetic nonsense which somebody or other once upon a time penned when in a frantic mood — "There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." But the belief which he gravely entertained, that he was most miserable ; that his heart was robbed... | |
 | Alicia Amy Leith - 1877 - 292 pages
...the things she ask'd. HE that will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay. January 22nd. GO, you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my grief away ; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Rogers. 'Tis only... | |
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