 Or moss-crowned fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest or verdant vales bestow ; Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Sad was the hour,...  The Poetical Works of Mr. William Collins - Page 9by William Collins - 1802 - 124 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Chambers - 1851 - 200 lehte
...moss-crowned fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delight to know Which plains more blessed or verdant vales bestow ; Here rocks alone and tasteless...day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Cursed be the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 lehte
...pride; Why think we these less pleasing to behold Tiian dreary desert«, if they lead to gold 1 •S.vl ide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfaltering, while th walla I bent my way !' О cea«c, my fear,- ! All frantic as I go, When thought creates unnumbered... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 lehte
...unrelenting rage ? Soon shall this scrip its precious load resign ; Then what but tears and hunger shall he thine? ' Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear...bent my way ! * Curst be the gold and silver which persuatio Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade ! The lily peace outshines the silver store, And life... | |
 | 1848 - 708 lehte
...fondness for travel, and to repeat with Hassan, the camel-driver, in Collins' Oriental Eclogues, " Sad was the hour and luckless was the day, When first from Shiraz' walls 1 bent my way." He was extremely fond of roving over hill and dell, losing himself meanwhile... | |
 | William Collins - 1853 - 240 lehte
...break away, Or moss-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, 25 Which plains more blest, or verdant vales bestow :...Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found, And famt and sickly winds for ever howl around. ' Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, 29 ' When... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 lehte
...its precious load resign; Then what but tears and hunger shall be thine ? In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant...tasteless sands, are found, And faint and sickly winds forever howl around. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 lehte
...nioss-crowu'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know Which plains more bless'd, or verdant vales bestow: Here rocks alone, and tasteless...found; And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way!" " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " Curs'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 lehte
...desperate sorrow wild, th' affrighted man Thrice sigh'd, thrice struck his breast, and thus began : " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls 1 bent my way ! " Ah ! little thought I of the blasting wind, The thirst or pinching hunger that I... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 lehte
...fountains mitigate the day, 60 In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more bless'd, or verdant vales, bestow ; Here rocks alone and tasteless...day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way ! Oh, cease my fears ! — all frantic as I go, When thought creates unnumber'd scenes of woe ; What... | |
 | J. Macgowan - 1856 - 406 lehte
...herself that she had already done great things in subduing Evelyn. CHAPTER III. LEARNING NOT EDUCATION. " SAD was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz's walls 1 bent my way." COLLINS. A WEARISOME drive of thirty miles, lengthened by a two hours'... | |
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