 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagini
...taught, That poets sang or heroes wrought.* Night is the time to weep ; To wet with unseen tears Those the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear...myself le vainqueur du rainqvew de la terre; — th ! * Without any wish to make pedantic objections, we may bo | aOowcd to remark, that this stanza in... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - 1845 - 450 pagini
...nursing the tender thought to reason," so here it is very properly joined with the epithet ala»ii<s, for reasons which we will give in the words of Montgomery...same idea is to be found in an exquisite passage of Sliakspeare :— The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Has crept into the bosom of the sea: And now... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagini
...taught, That poets sang, or heroes wrought. Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years...angels in their birth, But perished young, like things of earth . Night is the time for care ; Brooding on hours misspent, To see the spectre of despair Come... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1845 - 522 pagini
...taught, That poets sang, and heroes wrought. Night is the time to weep ; To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory, where sleep The joys of other years ; Hopes, that were Angels at their birth, But died when young, like things of earth. Night is the time to watch ; O'er ocean's... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 pagini
...shall never be put together again on earth — many a lost treasure and many a perished hope, — " Hopes that were angels in their birth, But perished young, like things of earth." Happy, happy days were they : — " O ! their record is lively in my soul !" and there is... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 420 pagini
...taught, That poets sang, or heroes wrought. Night is the time to weep ; To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory, where sleep The joys of other years,...in their birth, But perished young — like things of earth. Night is the time to watch ; On ocean's dark expanse, To hail the Pleiades, or catch The... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 396 pagini
...far, Than waking dreams by daylight are ! Night is the time to weep : To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory where sleep The joys of other years ; Hopes that were angels in their birth, But perish'd young, like things on earth 1 Night is the time to watch ; On Ocean's dark expanse, To hail... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - 1847 - 320 pagini
...taught, That poets sang, and heroes wrought. Night is the time to weep ; To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory, where sleep The joys of other years ; Hopes that were angels at their birth, But died when young, like things of earth. Night is the time to watch O'er ocean's... | |
 | Simple family prayers - 1847 - 168 pagini
...lay the head Upon our own delightful bed. Night is the time to weep, To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory, where sleep The joys of other years ; Hopes that were angels at their birth, But perished soon like things of earth. Night is the time to pray, Our Saviour oft... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pagini
...taught, That poets sang, or heroes wrought. Night is the time to weep ; To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory, where sleep The joys of other years...angels in their birth, But perished young, like things of earth! Night is the time to watch ; On ocean's dark expanse, To hail the Pleiades, or catch The... | |
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Night is the time for toil ; To plough the classic field, Intent to find the buried spoil Its wealthy furrows yield ; Till all is ours that sages taught, That poets sang or heroes wrought. 
