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" Stop and consider ! life is but a day, A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit ; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad a moan ? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown ; The... "
Collected Essays, Papers, Etc - Page 211
by Robert Bridges
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 3

England - 1818 - 762 pages
...and many rare plans of study to prepare him for it. The following we think ia very pretty raving. I " Why so sad a moan ? Life is the rose's hope while...laughing school-boy, without grief or care. Riding the springing branches of an dm. " O for ten yean, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy ; so I may do the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 806 pages
...following we think is very pretty raving. " Why so sad a moan ? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown j The reading of an ever-changing tale ; The light uplifting...laughing school-boy, without grief or care, Riding the springing branches of an elm. *4 O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy ; so I may do...
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
...should proudly see Wings to find out an immortality. Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fmgile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit...school-boy, without grief or care, Riding the springy bmnches of an elm. O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy ! so I may do the deed That...
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The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats: Complete in One Volume

Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad a moan Î Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown ; The reading...grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm. 0 for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy ! so I may do the deed That my own soul has to...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats

John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...giant, and my spirit tease Till at its shoulders it should proudly see Wings to find out an immortality. Stop and consider ! life is but a day ; A fragile...grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm. O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy ! so I may do the deed That my own soul has to...
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The London University Magazine, Volume 1

English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...unblown, The reading of an ever-changing tale : The light uplifting of a maiden's veil, A pigeon's tumbling in clear summer air ; A laughing school-boy...grief or care Riding the springy branches of an elm."* We do not mean to say that Mr. Tennyson has not often selected a mournful subject for his muse ; but...
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The Living Age, Volume 289

1916 - 880 pages
...Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad a moan? Lif e is the rose's hope while yet unblown ; The reading...laughing schoolboy, without grief or care, Riding the spring branches of an elm . . . But how many readers have ever paused over more than its beauty and...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 121

American periodicals - 1874 - 990 pages
...reading of an ever-changing tale ; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil ; A pigeon tumbling in the summer air ; A laughing schoolboy, without grief or care, Riding the springy branches o£ an elm. Very shortly after his installation at the cottage, and on the day after one of our visits,...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats: In Two Parts, Parts 1-2

John Keats - English poetry - 1846 - 340 pages
...giant, and my spirit tease Till at its shoulders it should proudly see Wings to find out an immortality. Stop and consider ! life is but a day ; A fragile...grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm. O for ten years, that I may overwhelm Myself in poesy ! so I may do the deed That my own soul has to...
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The Poetical Works of John Keats. In Two Parts, Parts 1-2

John Keats - 1846 - 348 pages
...and my spirit tease Till at its shoulders it should proudly see Wings to find out an immortality. f * Stop and consider ! life is but a day ; A fragile...grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm. Then I will pass the countries that I see In long perspective, and continually Taste their pure fountains....
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