| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? LIFE. MILTON. LIFE ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou...part; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me's a secret yet. Life! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? MILTON. LIFE. L1FE! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I...part ; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me's a secret yet. Life! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Authors, English - 1874 - 484 pages
...Columbus, shall be free. .LIFE. "Aninrala, vagula, blandula." "T" IEE ! I know not what thou art, IJ But know that thou and I must part ; And when, or how, or where we met I own to me 'sa secret yet. But this I know, when thou art fled, Where'er they lay these limbs, this head, No clod so valueless... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...not in the habit of grudging people their good things ; but I wish I had written those lines : — Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not good... | |
| England - 1874 - 796 pages
...merit to this brief but perfect flower of tender human sentiment and true poetry with which it ends. " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...; Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time : Say not... | |
| T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...poetess by being a dissenter', Mr. R. repeated the following stanzas from her poem entitled ' Life'. ' Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...cloudy weather ; ' Tis hard to part when friends are d«ar ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; E Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Authors, English - 1874 - 374 pages
...concluding stanza of 'Life' by Mrs. Barbauld, who composed it when she was very old. ' Life ! we 've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear j Perhaps *t will cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time... | |
| American poetry - 1875 - 210 pages
...cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. — ALFRED TENNYSON. LIFE ! I KNOW NOT WHAT THOU ART. LIFE ! I know not what thou art, But know that thou...how, or where we met I own to me 'sa secret yet. Life ! we Ve been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather, 'T is hard to part when friends... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...combine to say, ' 'Sweet is the scene when virtue dies i " LIFE. LIFE ! I know not what thou art, I tut know that thou and I must part ; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me 'sa secret yet. Life ! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy 'T is hard to part when friends are... | |
| Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 748 pages
...his days : He cares, not he, how slow his hours spend, The journey's better than the journey's end. Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...weather: 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 'twill coat a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not (jood... | |
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