Now Spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. The Mourner's Gift - Page 66edited by - 1837 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 904 pages
...are few that do not know ; but they who have read it often will not be fatigued by reading again. " Now Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal...life with health are flown. Starting and shivering in tlt' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of « ¡.at I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie... | |
| 1847 - 486 pages
...sad end that awaited him, we little wonder to hear him sing in the following melancholy strain : " Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. " Oft moruing dreams presage approaching fate, And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true : Led by... | |
| 1902 - 664 pages
...following stanza of Bruce's ' Elegy written in Spring': — Now Spring returns : but not to me returoi The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Altogether, internal evidence supports the assumption that Bruce was the author of the ' Ode to the... | |
| Hugh A. Garland - 1850 - 398 pages
...when I cast my eyes upon the blossoms, the sad lines of poor Michael Bruce recur to my memory: — " Now Spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown." Remove Mr. Manvy ! You amaze me. What, the friend and school-fellow and class-mate of Jefferson, the... | |
| George Burgess - 1850 - 348 pages
...to feel himself secure, at any age, in any health, after any precaution. XXVI. from Chronic Dwaq. " Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Startling and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
| George Burgess - 1850 - 362 pages
...himself secure, at any age, in any health, after any precaution. XXVI. ieat[j fram C[jronu Dwaq. " Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Startling and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. BRUCE. FROM " AN ELEGY." Now Spring returns ; bul not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have...life with health are flown. Starting and shivering in ilf inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined,... | |
| George Burgess - 1850 - 340 pages
...permit a mortal to feel himself secure, at any age, in any health, after any precaution. XXVI. ftam " Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal...known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And alLthe joys of life with health are flown. Startling and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...store; No anxious wishes e'er disturbed my ease; Heaven gave content and health—I asked no more. Now, Spring returns: but not to me returns The vernal...life with health are flown. Starting and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclined,... | |
| George Burgess - 1851 - 348 pages
...mortal to feel himself secure, at any age, in any health, after any precaution. XXVI. frnm Ctjronir " Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Startling and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
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