 Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me,...  Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Side 188af Thomas Moore - 1817 - 405 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1856 - 784 sider
...sadness that followed Moore's lines. I never nnrsed a glad gazelle To bleu me with it« bright blue eye; But when it came to know me well And love me, it was tare to die. Bat oar beasts or birds had not spirits, while tbe lady's partridge had a spirit. In tome... | |
 | Uncle George, George Frederick Pardon - 1857 - 232 sider
...fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye,...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die !" The one who can name the author, might give this selection from Burns : " 0, wad some power the... | |
 | 1857 - 396 sider
...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft blue eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die." Passing over the poet's unhappy mood of mind, occasioned, probably, as my good old uncle Barnabas used... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1857 - 384 sider
...us. Shall we say, in the language of Lalla Eookh, " I never rear'da fair gazelle, To glad me with her soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was swre to die}" About two months ago, the lamented dead opened up a communication with us, which promised... | |
 | George Coggeshall - 1858 - 628 sider
...never loved a plant or flower But it was first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To soothe me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me — it was sure to die ! " I will not indulge further in my own grief, but again resume the thread of my narrative. It was... | |
 | Lola Montez - 1858 - 154 sider
...by quoting the following words of Moore : " I never had a dear gazelle To glad me with its mild blue eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die." This will make her particularly anxious to be considered one of your " female friends." RULE THE THIRTEENTH.... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 sider
...hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. D2 I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye,...to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die. MOORE. THE REMONSTRANCE. WHY hast thou thus, since childhood's hour, Mxed hopes on things which soon... | |
 | Charles James Cannon - 1859 - 288 sider
...fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye,...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die !' — the Arab maiden has been imitated in lands where the story of her misfortunes was never told.... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1860 - 460 sider
...fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye,...came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die !" Surely death never appears so unnatural, and but for the Bible so mysterious, as when the blooming... | |
 | Maria Dolores E.R. Gilbert - 1860 - 152 sider
...by quoting the following words of Moore : " I never had a dear gazelle To glad me with its mild blue eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die." This will make her particularly anxious to be considered one of your " female friends." RULE THE THIRTEENTH.... | |
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