 O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss...  The Quarterly Review - Page 98edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...so gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those charming lines on his journey : — " If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, when, on our... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...so gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those charming lines on his journey : — " If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, I low gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, when,... | |
 | Alexander Ronald Grant - 1870 - 252 pages
...one in the foreleg, and another through his brain."* LINES ADDRESSED BY BISHOP HEBER TO HIS WIFE. IP thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening...gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea. * See " The Competition Wallah," hy GK O. Trevelyan, Esq. I miss thee at the dawning grey, When on... | |
 | Reginald Heber - English poetry - 1870 - 348 pages
...pain. On my lips the breath is fleeting — can it, wiE it long remain ? LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. HEBEE, IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening fail In green Eengala's palmy grove Listening the nightingale ! If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...rhyme, They tell how much I owe To thee and time ! BARRY CORNWALL. IF THOU WERT BY MY SIDE, MY LOVE. ld Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type...praise him not ; it were too late ; And some inuati gayly would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea 1 I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our... | |
 | English poetry - 1871 - 476 pages
...gave to thee and me This sweet lone isle amid the sea. WILLIAM C. BRYANT. If Thou wert "by my side. IF thou wert by my side, my love, How fast would evening...my love, wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gayly would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When, on our... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...rhyme, They tell how much 1 owe To thee and time ! BARRY CORNWALL. IF THOU WERT BY MY SIDE, MY LOVE men ? When your guns at Cavulli with final retort...short, — XVII. When Venice and Rome keep their ne 1 If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my knee, % How gayly would our pinnace glide O'er... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...absent from his wife, a little poem in his journal. ' If thou, my love, were by my side, My babies on my knee, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea. I miss thee when, by Gunga's stream, MyHwilight steps I guide, But most, beneath the lamp's pale beam, I miss thee... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...were -so gloriously faithful to both ! He writes to his wife those charming lines on his journey : — "If thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies at my knee, How gladly would our pinnace glide o'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, when, on our... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...Lord hath triumphed ! " Bishop Hc'ber. — Bom 1783, Died 1S26. 1378.— FROM BISHOP HEBER'S JOURNAL. 1591.— ТАМ O' SHANTE2. When chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neebors ncebors knoe, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea ! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When... | |
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