 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 336 pages
...which I shall conclude this paper. Now spring returns ; tut not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known: Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joyt of life with health aie flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' unconstant wind, Meagre and pale,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 354 pages
...returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life°s dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' unconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | James Kennedy (of Glasgow.) - Poetry - 1810 - 450 pages
...stanzas of the Elegy are added. " Now spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. " STARTING and shivering in th* inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...and health, — lask'd no more. Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring inth' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...approaching Death, by MICHAEL BRUCE. Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'rin" in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Highlands (Scotland) - 1817 - 744 pages
...my memory, beginning thus : " Now spring returns, but not to me returns, The vernal joys my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown." After four more stanzas in the same melancholy strain, he concludes the two last as follows:— " Farewell,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 pages
...justify Mr. L.'s extravagant eulogy. < Now Spring returns: but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. ' Farewell, ye blooming fields, ye cheerful plain», Enough forme the church-yard's lonely mound, Where... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...fortitude. FROM THE ELEGY ON SPRING. Now spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 328 pages
...which I shall conclude this paper. Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all thejoys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' unconstant wind, Meagre and pale,... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...Spring returns ; but not to me return« The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast the dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown." BRUCE. THBÏCE has returning Spring, with zephyrs bland, Breath'd health and fragrance o'er a smiling... | |
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Now Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. 
