 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...unconstant wind, Meagre and pule, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments as they pass. The winged...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate; And morning... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Tk-ueatil some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments as they pass. The winged...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate l And morning-dreams,... | |
 | Chaplet - 1805 - 238 pages
...liereclin'd, And eoimt the silent moments as they pa?.* : The wiriged moments, whose unstaying speea No art can stop, or in their course arrest, Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead. And lay nie down in peace with them that rest. Oii morning dreamis, presage approaching fate, And morning... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flow'n. Starting and shivering in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me do\vn in peace with them that rest. Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate ; And morning... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...unconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments as they pass. The winged...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. • Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate ; And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 338 pages
...the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments ;n they pass. The winged moments, whose unstaying speed...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate ; And morning... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...inconstant 'wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I -was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments as they pass : The winged...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning-dreams,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...unconstant wind, Meagre, and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments as they pass—- The...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them to rest." In this little town there are no less than three schools,... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...unconstant wind, Meagre, and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the silent moments as they pass,— The...whose unstaying speed No art can stop, or in their coarse arrest; Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - Poetry - 1810 - 450 pages
...ghost of what I was, Beneath some blasted tree I lie reclin'd, And count the moments as they silent pass : " THE winged moments, whose unstaying speed...Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. " OFT morning dreams presage approaching fate; And morning... | |
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And count the silent moments as they pass — The winged moments, whose unstaying speed No art can stop, or in their course arrest, Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. 
