 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1803 - 162 pages
...being of an hour, Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile,...weep, a little while; * Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom!... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...being of an hour, Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep. Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile,...weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom-j... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1804 - 144 pages
...being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels oti the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while j Then melt, ye elements ! that fofm'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade ye wild... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1806 - 220 pages
...; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, 34O To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil,...weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of niy doom,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 176 pages
...being of an hour; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know delight but by her parting smile,...weep, a little while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1812 - 160 pages
...being of an hour ; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know delight but by her parting smile,...weep, a little -while; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain This troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...being of an hour, Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile,...doom ! And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb ! Truth, ever lovely, since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man, — How can... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - Suicide - 1824 - 422 pages
...being of an hour; Doom'd o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep. Swift as the tempest travels on the deep; To know Delight but by her parting smile,...weep, a little while ; Then melt, ye elements, that form'd in vain '1 his troubled pulse, and visionary brain ! Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 240 pages
...to the deep, To know delight but by her parting smile, Ami toil, and wish, and weep a little while. Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom, And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb. C AMPBII.!. Thoughts of a loving nature. — An attempt to apologize for HaroMe's illicit attachments.—... | |
 | Nathan Sidney Smith Beman - Church and education - 1825 - 48 pages
...not eternal. Wero this the case, we might sing our own dirge in the expressive lines of the poet. " Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain " This...troubled pulse, and visionary brain ; " Fade, ye wild (lowers, memorials of my doom, " And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb." A life of active usefulness... | |
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Chance awaked, inexorable power, This frail and feverish being of an hour ; Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep, Swift as the tempest travels on the deep, To know Delight but by her parting smile, And toil, and wish, and weep a little while... 
