 Why, Damon, with the forward day Dost thou thy little spot survey, From tree to tree, with doubtful cheer, Pursue the progress of the year, What winds arise, what rains descend, When thou before that year shalt end ? What do thy noontide walks avail,...  The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for 1801-11 - Page 3441815Full view - About this book
 | 1802 - 520 lehte
...mine, And I feel in my heart that they will ; Then sad shall I sing, with a sorrow like thine, 408 BY DR. SEWELL *. WHY, Damon, with the forward day,...arise, what rains descend : When thou before that year shall end ? What do thy noon-tide walks avail, To clear the leaf, and pick the snail; Then wantonly... | |
 | 1802 - 524 lehte
...sad shall I sing, with a sorrow like thine, " In pity, fond bosom, lie still I" i ODE. XT DR. SEWELI. WHY, Damon, with the forward day, Dost thou thy little...arise, what rains descend: When thou before that year shall end ? • What do thy noon-tide walks avail, To clear the leaf, and pick the snail; Then wantonly... | |
 | 1808 - 496 lehte
...in life's declining day, Hours, minutes, months, and years, will softly steal away. • L B. ODE. , Damon, with the forward day, Dost thou thy little...arise, what rains descend, When thou before that year shall end i What do thy noon-tide walks avail, To clear the leaf, and pick the snail ; Then, wantonly,... | |
 | 1817 - 728 lehte
...and meditation upon, his approaching end: " Soliloquy ty Dr. Sewell, in his Garden at Hampstead f. " Why, Damon, with the forward day Dost thou thy little...spot survey ; From tree to tree, with doubtful cheer, Observe the progress of the year; What winds arise, what rains descend — When thou before that year... | |
 | 1817 - 710 lehte
...What winds arise, what rains descend — When thou before that year shalt end? What do thy noon-day walks avail. To clear the leaf, and pick the snail ? Then wantonly to death decree An insect usefuller than thee. Thou and the worm are brother kind, As low, as earthy, and as blind. Vain wretch... | |
 | 1817 - 506 lehte
...forward day V v Uost thou thy little spot survey • From tree to^ree, with doubtful cheer. Observe the progress of the year ; What winds arise, what rains descend — When thou before that ycarshalt end ? And the peasants would whisper that Alztgar knew, How he fell in the valley beneath... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 lehte
...over his remains. VERSES, SAID TO BE WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR ON HIMSELF WHEN HE WAS IN A CONSUMPTION. WHY, Damon, with the forward day, Dost thou thy little...rains descend, When thou before that year shalt end ? VOL. IV. B What do thy noon-tide walks avail, To clear the leaf, and pick the snail, Then wantonly... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 lehte
...over his remains. VERSES, SAIII TO BE WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR ON HIMSELF WHEN HE WAS IN A CONSUMPTION. WHY, Damon, with the forward day, Dost thou thy little spot survey, ti , from tree to tree, with doubtful cheer, • ;, Pursue the progress of the year, . What winds arise,... | |
 | 1824 - 452 lehte
...over his remains. ' VEHSES, Said to be written by the Autkur on himself when he teas in a Consumption. Why, Damon, with the forward day, Dost thou thy little...the snail, Then wantonly to death decree An insect nsefuller than thee? Thou and the worm are brother-kind, As low, as earthy, and us Minil. Vain wretch... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 lehte
...Fancy drew, Nor Hope's gay visions cheer my eye, Oh, drown the sense of present woe! ELEGIAC STANZAS*. WHY, Damon, with the forward day, Dost thou thy little...wantonly to death decree An insect of more use than thee 1 Thou and the worm are brother kind, As low, as earthly, and as blind ! Vain wretch ! canst thou expect... | |
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