While rivers flow, and woods are green. At times there come, as come there ought, Grave moments of sedater thought, — When fortune frowns, nor lends our night One gleam of her inconstant light ; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 981825Full view - About this book
| England - 1825 - 806 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light ; And hope, that decks the peasant'* bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower ; 0 then I see, while seated...awakens a much deeper feeling than that sort of poetry, wnich, dealing in troubled anil sinful passions, might be supposed to have been groaned out to the... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light ; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower ; 0 then I see, while seated nigh, A mother's heart shine to thine eye ; And proud resolve and purpose meek, Speak of thee more than words can speak : — 1... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
...inconstant light ; And Hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower, O, then I see, while seated nigh, A mother's heart shine...purpose meek, Speak of thee more than words can speak : I think the wedded wife of mine The best of all that's not divine ! AHMED THE COBBLER. IN the great... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light ; And hope, tha,t decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower : 0 then I see, while seated...wedded wife of mine The best of all that's not divine ! Literary Souvenir. IM SADDEST WHEN I SING. BY THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, ESQ. You think I have a merry... | |
| Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light ; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower : 0 then I see, while seated...speak — 1 think the wedded wife of mine The best of nil that's not divine ! Literary Souvenir. IM SADDEST WHEN I SING. • BY THOMAS HAYNE3 BAYLY, ESQ.... | |
| Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...inconstant light; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower: O then I see, while seated nigh, A mother's heart shine...purpose meek, Speak of thee more than words can speak : — I think the wedded wife of mine The beat of all that's not divine ! A STORM. BY BARRY CORNWALL.... | |
| American periodicals - 1825 - 498 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower; 0 then I see, while seated...shine in thine eye ; And proud resolve and purpose metk, Speak of thee more than words can speak ; 1 think the wedded wife of mine The best of all that's... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower. 0 then I see, while seated nigh, A mother's heart shine to thine eye ; And proud resolve and purpose meek Speak of thee more than words can speak : — 1 think... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light ; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower : 0 then I see, while seated...wedded wife of mine The best of all that's not divine ! A WET SHEET AND A FLOW1NO SEA. A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, — And fills... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...night One gleam of her inconstant light ; And hope, that decks the peasant's bower, Shines like the rainbow through the shower : 0 then I see, while seated...in thine eye ; And proud resolve, and purpose meek, S1x.'ak of thee more than words can speak, — A WET SHEET AND A PLOW1NG SEA. A WET sheet and a flowing... | |
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