 There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay ; Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself...  The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 286by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873Full view - About this book
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...victrix perenni Exitium subitura vinclo. HH LXX. anö present. THEKE 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. When the glow of early thought...dull decay ; 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the bhish alone, which which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...The Foscari," " Sardanapalus," " Werner," &e. STANZAS FOR MUSIC. There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought...so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere yonth itself bo past. Then the few, whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...comprehended by every one. It is the song even of the Sensualist, that " There is not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay." But the knowledge which conquers grief and enables the Budhist to enter Nirwana, where he throws off... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1851 - 494 pages
...hope to vanish. This is what leads to the complaint, — • " There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought...bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past." Oh ! if but the sweet sequestered path were seen of the life led by an Ildefonso in his boyhood, sanctity,... | |
 | Victor von Arentsschild - English poetry - 1851 - 588 pages
...feeling'» dnll decay; "Г ie not on youth's smooth cheek the lilnsli alone, which fades so fast, Bat the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past. Then the few whose spirits float ahove the wreck of hapiness Are driven o'er the shoals of gnilt or ocean of excess ; The magnet of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 620 pages
...on it, suggested Byron's exquisite "Stanzas for Music :" — " There 'a not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay : " r is not on youth's smooth check tho blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...scatentem Pectore te, pia Nympha, sensit." GRAY'S "Poomata." THERE 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay ; 'T is not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine - 1854 - 532 pages
...Poems,) is not correctly given here. The first stanza runs thus : " There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, "When the glow of early thought...bloom of heart is gone, ere' youth itself be past." These lines bear date March, 1 815.— M. hands. He, indeed, is a gentlemanlike man, and so was All... | |
 | William Maginn - 1855 - 392 pages
...Poems,) is not correctly given here. The first stanza runs thus : " There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought...bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past." These lines bear date March, 1815. — M. in flcrin to complain, i. ?Tis in vain To complain, In a... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 796 pages
...meaning which she afterwards learned to understand only too well. " There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay ; 'T is not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone that fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart... | |
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