 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...paper. Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known : Dim in rny breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' unconstaut wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...compel» aspirations. THE MIRROR. " 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 ajl the joys of life with health are flown ! " Wasting and shiv'ring in the inconstant wind ; Meagre... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...and health—I ask'd no more. XVI. 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. XVII. Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost ef what I was, Beneath... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...peculiar interest ODE TO 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 shir'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...and health — I ask'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 shivering in the' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pages
...composed in his last illness : " 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 joy of life with health are flown." " Merciful Father ! It is the voice of my husband," whispered the... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...him Lord of all. ODE TO 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... | |
 | John Emery Abbot - Sermons, American - 1829 - 426 pages
...Bruce, just before his death : — 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. Yet in the midst of a weakness and languor which might have excused him for attending exclusively to... | |
 | John Emery Abbot - Sermons, American - 1829 - 434 pages
...Bruce, just before his death : — 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. Yet in the midst of a weakness and languor which might have excused him for attending exclusively to... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...TUX. Kl.hT.r UN 8FHIHO. Now spring returns: but not to me returns The vernal joy my better have years 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, Meager and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
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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. 
