 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1843 - 606 pages
...acquaintance in my ghostly visage. " Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal joy my better days have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown." He recovered, however, from this attack, and the next year (1829) he was elected a member of the convention,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and health — I asked 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...no more. Mow, Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; 3im tuni the many-twinkling leaves Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods, diffused Starting and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some... | |
 | 412 pages
...which we are all familiar : " 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 ;" and then he takes farewell of the "blooming fields," and " cheerful plains,'1 and of the " world... | |
 | Henry Ware - Sermons, American - 1846 - 432 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 Chambers - Scotland - 1847 - 904 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 flown. Starting and shivering in tlt' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of « ¡.at I was, Beneath... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...following are its concluding stanzas. Now spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast, life's dying...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... | |
 | 1847 - 486 pages
...following melancholy strain : " 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. " Oft moruing dreams presage approaching fate, And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true : Led by... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1902 - 664 pages
...' Elegy written in Spring': — Now Spring returns : but not to me returoi 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. Altogether, internal evidence supports the assumption that Bruce was the author of the ' Ode to the... | |
 | George Burgess - Death - 1850 - 362 pages
...XXVI. ieat[j fram C[jronu Dwaq. " 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. Startling and shivering in the inconstant wind, Meagre 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. 
