Comfort? comfort scorned of devils; this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on... Poems - Sivu 98tekijä(t) Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé - 1832 - 882 sivua
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dend unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1879
...circumstances depicted in that miserybreathing line from the Poet Laureate's pen, of which the scene is laid " in the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." It would be easy to mention many instances in which the horses exhibited at Kilburn showed their susceptibility... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 8 sivua
...by the memory of their former happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : — " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillow, to the tears that thou shall weep. • VOL. II. C Thou shalt hear the "Never!... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 8 sivua
...that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : — " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, leat thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night,...before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillow, to the tears that thou shall weep. VOL. II. C Thou shall hear the " Never!... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 8 sivua
...happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : — " Drug thy memories, lest tbou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 365 sivua
...their former happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow: — '' Drug thy memoriaa, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain u on the roof. Like a dog he hunta in dreams^ and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 365 sivua
...lest thy heart be pot to proof, In the dead unhappy mght, and when tho rain ia on the ruoof. Like • dog he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying uight-lump flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 504 sivua
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a do;, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the ram is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 504 sivua
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee,... | |
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