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" A Mighty pain to Love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss. But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. "
The Works of the English Poets: Cowley - Page 143
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Poems: Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written ...

Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 484 pages
...ones in the Frigid One, Cold frozen Loves with which I pine, And parched Loves beneath the Line. 54 VII. Gold. A Mighty pain to Love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss. But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. Virtue now nor noble Blood,...
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High School Exercises in Grammar

Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 pages
...money. 16 Striving to sing glad songs I but attain Wild discords sadder than Griefs saddest tune. 17 A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss. 18 Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. 19 I will instruct my sorrows to be proud. 20 He doth nothing...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...unhappiness is left to princes To marry blood. 2867 Beaumont and Fletcher: Maid in the Mill. Act ii. Sc. 2 A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss ; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. 2868 Cowley: Gold Love...
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Dollars and Sense: A Story in Four Acts

Otto J. Kraemer, Lester W. Humphreys - 1915 - 124 pages
...suffering as the conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. "A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss, But of all pains the greatest pain, It is to love and love in vain." (Enter Lord N.) Lord N....
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...love! How a man may choose a Good Wife. Act I. 1. Attributed to JOSHUA COOKE in Diet, of Nat. Biog. 19 A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain. ABRAHAM OOWI.EY — Trans,...
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Crisp Toasts: Wonderful Words That Add Wit and Class to Every Time You Raise ...

Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 178 pages
...To love, or as Martin Tupper once said, "Love — what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear!" • "A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain, Is to love, but love in vain." — Abraham Cowley • "Don't...
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Elsie's Womanhood

Martha Finley - 1993 - 362 pages
...cried, lifting a very bright face to his, "what a load you have taken from my mind." CHAPTER EIGHTH. "A mighty pain to love it is And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain." — COWIBY. ONE lovely...
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Towards Higher Consciousness - Spiritual Insights

136 pages
...gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 Epipsychidion 9. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. Abraham Cowley 1618-1667...
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Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days, Volume 1

Walt Whitman - 2007 - 404 pages
...kept her dead child's hair; 65 The third— a bangle, bright and warm, Around a faithless woman's arm. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pain the greatest pain, 70 It is to love, but love in vain. Maurice F. Egan on De...
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Poems Miscellanies, the Mistress, Pindarique Odes, Davideis, Verses Written ...

Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 484 pages
...Frigid One, Cold frozen Loves with which I pine, And parched Loves beneath the Line. 54 VII. Gotd. A Mighty pain to Love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss. But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. Virtue now nor noble Blood,...
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