 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 דפים
...remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass1? Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings 1 In the next extract there is an unexpected touch of sentiment mixed with its playfulness,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 426 דפים
...remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks That dazzle as they pass ! Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...of Paradise have lent Their plumage for its wings? BYRON. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is grey, but not with years ; Nor grew it white In a single... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 דפים
...remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ? w. R. PART ELEVENTH. — DEBATES. I. — ARE THE MENTAL CAPACITIES OF THE SEXES EQUAL ?... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 דפים
...remarks The ebbing of the glass, When all the sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? THE MOURNER. By EDWIN ARNOLD. THE shadows fall from the minster wall, Where a weeping... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 דפים
...The cbbings of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass? 87 Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? ROBERT WILLIAM SPENCER. SHE IS A MAID OF ARTLESS GRACE. SHE is a maid of artless grace,... | |
 | 1861 - 356 דפים
...remarks The ebbings of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? And who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings ? EW SPENUEE. Struggle not, my foolish soul, Let Time's garments round thee roll. Time,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1866 - 240 דפים
...remarks The ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond-sparks, That dazzle as they pass? Ah, who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...When birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ? HON. WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER. 15S [1S14.] YOUNG men will love thee more fair and more faft;... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 דפים
...remarks The ebbings of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, That dazzle as they pass ? Or who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...When Birds of Paradise have lent Their plumage for his wings ? ON THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE CANVASSING FOR CJ FOX, AT THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION. ARRAYED... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 דפים
...remarks the ebbing of his glass, When all its sands are diamond sparks, that dazzle as they pass ? Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...When birds of Paradise have lent their plumage for his wings ? Here is a sweet pastoral sketch, by WORDSWORTH ; let us, in imagination, go a-nutting with... | |
 | J. H. - 1867 - 860 דפים
...eye with clear account remarks The ebbing of his glass, \Vhen all its sands are diamond sparks j Ah ! who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings,...of Paradise have lent Their plumage for its wings ? William Spencer. 45. THE POET'S BRIDAL-DAY SONG. OH ! my love's like the steadfast sun, Or streams... | |
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I stayed, forgive the crime, — Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers! 
