 Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary ! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary ! Partakers of thy...  Poems - Sivu 224tekijä(t) William Cowper - 1818 - 299 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 sivua
...of orient light, My Mary! For could I view nor them, nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see 7 The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary ! Partakers...decline, Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet gently pressed, press gently mine, My Mary! Such feebleness of limbs thou provX That now at every step thou... | |
 | Christians - 1856 - 408 sivua
...indistinct expressions seem Like language uttered in a dream ; Yet me they charm, whate'er the theme, My Mary ! ****** " Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy...resign : Yet gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary!" All after this is more and more sad. Mrs. Unwin's weakness increased ; and she who had been Cowper's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 sivua
...lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For could 1 view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary I 2 H 2 Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Ye—gently press'd, press... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 sivua
...lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For, could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would rise in vain for me, Partakers of thy sad decline, My Mary! Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet gently press'd, press... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 438 sivua
...them, nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see T The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary I Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet gently pressed, press gently mine, My Mary! Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st, That now at every step... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 sivua
...lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For, could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would...gently mine, My Mary! Such feebleness of limbs thou provest, That now at every step thou movest Upheld by two, yet still thou lovest, My Mary! And still... | |
 | 1910 - 542 sivua
...lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would...Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet, gently press'd, press gently mine, My Mary ! Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st That now at every step... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 sivua
...lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary ! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see ? The sun would...Thy hands their little force resign ; Yet, gently pressed, press gently mine, My Mary ! And then I feel that still I hold A richer store ten thousandfold... | |
 | 1909 - 852 sivua
...her an immortality of forty words. What perfection of sincerity in art lies in Cowper's repetition: "Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet, gently pressed, press gently mine, My Mary!" And when Milton writes:— "Though fall'n on evil days, On evil... | |
 | 1910 - 298 sivua
...lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would...decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet, gently press'd, press gently mine, My Mary ! Such feebleness of limbs thou prov'st That now at every step... | |
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