 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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 th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | Christian life - 1833 - 190 pages
...Bruce, just before his dtath: — 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... | |
 | Sketches - English poetry - 1833 - 220 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 shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was — Beneath... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1835 - 592 pages
...be fatigued by reading again. " 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 llown. Starting and shivering in th" inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath... | |
 | Mrs. M. A. Patrick - Consolation - 1837 - 214 pages
...approaching death. BY MICHAEL BBOCE. 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, Meager and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Commonplace-books - 1838 - 404 pages
...: within a fortnight of his departure, he wrote a poem which concludes with the following stanzas. Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. ***** Starting and shiv'ring at the chilling wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was; Beneath... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...and overpowering melancholy : " 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 tho joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shivering in th' inconstant wind, Monger and pale,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...tear from some simple heart! "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." To young genius to die is often a great pain. The green leaf was almost hidden in blossoms, and the... | |
 | John Wilson - English essays - 1842 - 406 pages
...tear from some simple heart. " 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." To young Genius to die is often a great gain. The green leaf was almost hidden in blossoms, and the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...a tear from some simple heart! "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." With sorrows and sufferings like these, it would be hardly fair to blame society at large for having... | |
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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. 
