| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...free, Or broke its cage Ho perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird! I could not wish for thine, Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...Which made me both to weep and smile; I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me; But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
| Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1905 - 726 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 280 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...; For — Heaven forgive that thought ! the while 185 Which made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's soul... | |
| Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...free,. Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...Paradise ; For— Heaven forgive that thought! the whil* Which made me both to weep and smile; I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 280 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...from Paradise ; For — Heaven forgive that thought ! ...e while Which made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 180 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...from Paradise; For — Heaven forgive that thought I the while Which made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's... | |
| Isabel Moore - Readers - 1906 - 360 pages
...wings, And song that said a thousand things, And seemed to say them all for me 1 I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me...never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly alone. A kind of change came in my fate, My keepers grew compassionate. I know not what had made them... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 280 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...from Paradise ; For— Heaven forgive that thought ! ...e while Which made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes deenVd that it might be My brother's... | |
| John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 280 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird, I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...away it flew, And then 'twas mortal — well I knew, 290 For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone — Lone, — as the corse... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 170 pages
...free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, 280 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...Which made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, 281 Sweet bird! I could not wish foi thine! Or if it were, in winged guise, A visitant...made me both to weep and smile — • I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me; But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
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