 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Anthologies - 1910 - 330 pages
...dyes, Require the borrow'd gloss of art? Speak not of fate: — ah! change the theme And talk of odors, talk of wine, Talk of the flowers that round us bloom;...all a dream; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. Beauty has such resistless power, That even the chaste Egyptian... | |
 | 1907 - 668 pages
...change the theme, And talk of odors, talk of wine, Talk of the flowers that round us bloom : ' 1 is all a cloud, 'tis all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. But, ah, sweet maid, my counsel hear — (Youth should attend... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - English literature - 1917 - 434 pages
...Speak not of fate : — ah ! change the theme, And talk of odors, talk of wine, Talk of the flow'rs that round us bloom: 'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. Beauty has such resistless pow'r, That ev'n the chaste Egyptian... | |
 | Theodore Douglas Dunn - Anglo-Indian poetry - 1921 - 166 pages
...say: Tell them, their Eden cannot show A stream so clear as Rocnabad, A bower so sweet as Mosellay. Speak not of fate : Ah ! change the theme, And talk...all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. Beauty has such resistless power, That even the chaste Egyptian... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - English poetry - 1924 - 230 pages
...where living roses blow, Where Nature spreads her richest dyes, Require the borrowed gloss of art? Speak not of fate: — ah! change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine, Talk of the flow'rs that round us bloom: 'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream; To love and joy thy thoughts confine,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...where living roses blow, Where nature spreads her richest dies, Require the borrow'd gloss of art? Speak not of fate : — ah ! change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine, Talk of the flow'rs that round us bloom : 'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine,... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Poetry - 1928 - 1390 pages
...art? Speak not of fate: — ah! change the theme, And talk of odors, talk of wine, Talk of the flow'rs that round us bloom: Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. Beauty has such resistless pow'r, That ev'n the chaste Egyptian... | |
 | Cyril Glassé - Reference - 2001 - 588 pages
...gloss of art? Speak not of fate: Oh! Change the theme. And talk of odours, talk of wine. HAFSAH - HAKIM Talk of the flowers that round us bloom: Tis all a...all a dream: To love and joy, thy thoughts confine. Nor hope lo pierce the sacred gloom. Beauty has such resistless power. That ever the chaste Egyptian... | |
 | 530 pages
...where living roses blow, Where nature spreads her richest dyes, Kequire the borrowed gloss of art? Speak not of fate ; ah, change the theme, And talk...all a dream; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. With respect to the first stanza of the foregoing, we must observe... | |
 | 1955 - 396 pages
...oasis of subject matter and vocabulary. The thenfashionable doctrine of deism was nowhere present: Speak not of fate : — ah ! change the theme, And...all a dream. To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. It is not difficult to see why, decades later, Fitz Gerald was... | |
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Require the borrow'd gloss of art ? Speak not of fate : ah ! change the theme, And talk of odours, talk of wine, Talk of the flowers that round us bloom : 'Tis all a cloud, 'tis all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the... 
