 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 640 pages
...falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in inc. 4. The better days of life were ours; The worst can be...That all those charms have pass'd away: I might have watch'cl through long decay. 5. The flower in ripen'd bloom unmatch'd Must fall the earliest prey,... | |
 | 1900 - 608 pages
...are in harmony throughout eight long stanzas, without a single line that is feeble or overcharged : ' The better days of life were ours ; The worst can...now too much to weep ; Nor need I to repine That all thoae charms have passed away, I might have watched through long decay.' There is no novelty in the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 322 pages
...falsehood disavow : And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. 3. 4. The better days of life were ours ; The worst can...pass'd away : I might have watch'd through long decay. The flower in ripen'd bloom unmatch'd Must fall the earliest prey, Though by no. hand untimely snatch'd,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 230 pages
...falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. 4. The better days of life were ours ; The worst can...weep; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have passed away; I might have watched through long decay. 5. The flower in ripened bloom unmatched Must... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...falsehood disavow : And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. 4. The better days of life were ours ; The worst can...cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be mine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep ; Nor need I to repine That all... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 234 pages
...falsehood disavow : And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. 4. The better days of life were ours ; The worst can...; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have passed away ; I might have watched through long decay. 5. The flower in ripened bloom unmatched Must... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 pages
...falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. 4. The better days of life were ours; The worst can be...weep; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have passed away; I might have watched through long decay. 5. The flower in ripened bloom unmatched Must... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...Nor falsehood disavow : And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. The better days of life were ours $ The worst can...The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall nevej- more be thine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep ; Nor need I... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 404 pages
...falsehood disavow : And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong , or change, or fault in me. 4. The better days of life were ours ; The worst can...; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have passed away ; I might have watched through long decay. 5. The flower in ripened bloom unmatched Must... | |
 | John Watson DALBY - 1822 - 202 pages
...await, Can ne'er be happy till he bends His course to his own lov'd gate. On the Death of Allan Edwards. The 'better days of life were ours — The worst can be but mine ; The sun that shines, the storm that lours Ma; never more be thine. OH ! vain the wreath I twined for thee, Dewed... | |
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Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. The better... 
