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" Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear... "
The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century - Page 276
by Lyre - 1841 - 344 pages
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed. with notes ...

Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...pleasure;— To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Ev'n as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of cure Which I have borne and yet must bear. — Till death like sleep might steal on me. And I might...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Ibid. I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have horne, and yet must bear. Stanzas, written in Dejection, near Naples. That orbed maiden, with white...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.2 Ibid. I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away...life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear. Stanzas, written in Dejection, near Naples. That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1875 - 386 pages
...upon the midnight with no pain. When? (/). I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear. Till death like sleep might steal on me. Under what influences and presences of Nature ? (g). Johnson said there is "perhaps some melancholy"...
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Memoirs of Eminent Etonians

Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1876 - 726 pages
...life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. " Yet now despair itself is mikl, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down...steal on me ; And I might feel in the warm air My check grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony. "Some might lament...
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Favorite Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1877 - 104 pages
...surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air Some might lament that I were cold, As I when this sweet day is gone, Which my lost heart, too soon...
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The Evangelical repository. Vol. 1- new

1877 - 660 pages
...surround. Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt out in other measure. " Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are. I could sit down, like a tired child, And weel> away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear,...
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A Poetry Book of Modern Poets: Consisting of Songs & Sonnets, Odes & Lyrics ...

Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 376 pages
...— Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; — To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My check grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony. Some might lament...
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Shelley, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...pl»y. The Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples, echo tho thought with a slight variation : — Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters arc ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet...
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A poetry-book of modern poets, selected and arranged by A. B. Edwards

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...— Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; — To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...bear, — Till death like sleep might steal on me, And l might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last...
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