 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 510 pages
...XIV. CC No, No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ! And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns ! But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile ; May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here, Than... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...xiv. cc No, No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns! Aad the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns ! But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile ; May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here, Than... | |
 | 1813 - 558 pages
...my brow;— No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns! And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns! But send round the bowl and be happy awhile; May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here, Than the... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 350 pages
...exist to rapturous impressions alone. As a late poet expresses it, " The heart, that is soonest alive to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns." I have often wished that in certain society, and in certain situations, it were possible to fall into... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...brighten my brow: No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns! But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile; May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here' Than... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1821 - 276 pages
...my brow:— No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns! But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile; May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here, Than... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 588 pages
...excellent humour was he — the warmest in feeling, and of a spirit devoted to all sorts of merriment ; But the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns ; and there were moments when my boyish heart was melting to sorrow as he spake,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, Irish - 1821 - 294 pages
...brighten my brow. No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart, that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns ! But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile ; May we never meet worse, in... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish poetry (in English) - 1822 - 198 pages
...brow : — No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers ! Is always the first to be touched by the thorns! But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile; May we never meet worse in our... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 464 pages
...<, ,, x ^ No — life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns ! But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile ; May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here, Than... | |
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. 
