 | Orison Swett Marden - Sex instruction - 1915 - 352 pages
...Such a man might well exclaim with the gifted "poet of remorse," — Though wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breast, Through midnight...yield no more their former hope of rest; 'Tis but as ivy leaves around the ruined turret wreathe, IA11 green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray... | |
 | Walter Barnes - English poetry - 1915 - 602 pages
...And though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breast, Through midnight...yield no more their former hope of rest ; 'Tis but as ivy -leaves around the ruin'd turret wreathe, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...And though the eye may sparkle still, Ч is where the iee appears. Though wit may flash from fluent year @ 2 Г is but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...mirth distract the breast, Through midnight hours that yield no more their former hope of rest; T is meet with her The Abominable, that uninvited came 220 Into the fair PeleVan banquet-hall, And cast grey beneath. Oh could I feel as I have felt, — or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...And though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent This grave no cushion is for thee. Or art thou one ; 15 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...And though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breast, Through midnight...former hope of rest ; 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruined turret wreathe, .Ml green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath. Oh could I feel... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...And though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breast, Through midnight...former hope of rest; 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruined turret wreath, 15 All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and grey beneath. Oh could I... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 pages
...And though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breast. Through midnight...hours that yield no more their former hope of rest; 'T is but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreathe, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 pages
...Ami though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breast. Through midnight...former hope of rest ; 'Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruinM turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and gray beneath. Oh could I feel... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...'t is where the ice appears. Though wit may flash from fluent lips, and mirth distract the breust. ; T is but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn... | |
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Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down ; It cannot feel for others' woes, it dare not dream its own ; That heavy chill has frozen o'er the fountain of our tears, And though the eye may sparkle still, 'tis where the ice appears. 
