 ... Thy vows are all broken, And light is thy fame ; I hear thy name spoken, And share in its shame. They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear ; A shudder comes o'er me — Why wert thou so dear ? They know not I knew thee, Who knew thee too well...  The works of lord Byron - Page 196by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Dorothy Henrietta Boulger - 1881 - 248 pages
...the small page in deep mourning livery upstairs, he finds himself repeating those lines of Byron's : If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee The door is thrown open and his name announced before he has time to remember the last line. CHAPTER... | |
 | Margaret Doake - 1881 - 326 pages
...Hubert gave a long, low whistle, and then remained for a time in profound meditation. CHAPTEE XIV. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee ? In silence and tears. BVRON. THE few remaining days of May's stay in Dublin passed quickly away,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...know not I knew thee, Who knew thee too well : — Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tel!. isdom, though fled far away. Hards of Passion and...Double-lived in regions new ! BEAUTY. Fnosi ll EMJYMION." Л MODERN CRITICS. FROM " ENGLISH BAUDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS." A man must serve his time to every trade... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...I knew thee, Who knew thec too well. Long, long, shall I rue thee Too deeply to tell 300 IN A YEAR. In secret we met — In silence I grieve, That thy...should meet thee After long years, How should I greet theef — In silence and tears. LORD BYRON. Jn a Dear. NEVER any more While I live, Need I hope to... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Authors, English - 1882 - 252 pages
...Temple. The second of these, which is so brief that it may surely be quoted here — " 0 lacrymarum fons, tenero sacros Ducentium ortus ex animo ; quater Felix ! in imo qui scatentem Pectore te, pia Nympha, sensit " — has called forth high eulogy from scholars of every succeeding... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...know not I knew thee, Who knew thee too well : — Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tell. In secret we met — In silence I grieve, That thy...years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears. AND THOU ART DEAD, AS YOUNG AND FAIR. And them art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth... | |
 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 340 pages
...know not I knew thce, Who knew thee too well :— Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tell. In secret we met — In silence I grieve, That thy...years, How should I greet thee ?With silence and tears. CLXVI. STANZAS FOR MUSIC. THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee ; And like music... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...not I knew thee, Who knew thee too well : — • Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tell. In secret we met — In silence I grieve, That thy...years, How should I greet thee? With silence and tears. (1808.) AND THOU ART DEAD, AS YOUNG AND FAIR. And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...quam nihil invidereui, Cum Dei ardentes medius quadrigas Sentit Olympus. ALCAIC FRAGMENT. O LACRYMAEUM fons, tenero sacros Ducentium ortus ex animo ; quater Felix ! in imo qui scatentem Pectore te, pia Nympha, sensit. LATIN LINES ADDRESSED TO ME. WEST, FEOM GENOA. HOEBIDOS tractus, Boreseque... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 578 pages
...know not I knew thee, Who knew thee too well : — Long, long shall I rue thee, Too deeply to tell. In secret we met, In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, My spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years ; How should I greet thee ? — With silence... | |
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