| 1813 - 554 pages
...enjoyment adorns! And the heart that is soonest awake to the llmvers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns! • But send round the bowl and be...never meet worse in our pilgrimage here, Than the tear of enjoyment can guild with a smile, And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear! i The thread... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 350 pages
...exist to rapturous impressions alone. As a late poet expresses it, " The heart, that is soonest alive to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns." I have often wished that in certain society, and in certain situations, it were possible to fall into... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1821 - 276 pages
...life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to...Than the tear that enjoyment can gild with a smile, The thread of our life would be dark Heaven knows! If it were not with friendship and love intertwined... | |
| Thomas Moore - Ballads, Irish - 1821 - 294 pages
...enjoyment adorns ; And the heart, that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns ! But send round the bowl, and be happy...And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear. II. The thread of our life would be dark, heaven knows ! If it were not with friendship and love intertwin'd... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 464 pages
...life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first...And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear. ^ X *••»', The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows ! If it were not with friendship... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 314 pages
...enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch 'd by the thorns ! But send round the bowl, and be happy...And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear. II. The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows ! If it were not with friendship and love intertwined... | |
| Thomas Moore - Folk songs, Irish - 1825 - 374 pages
...that once, through Tara's halls, The soul of music shed, MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first...awhile ; May we never meet worse in our pilgrimage here Thau the tear that enjoyment can gild with a smile, And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 310 pages
...life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldon the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first...the thorns ! But send round the bowl, and be happy a while ; May we never meet worse in our Pilgrimage here, Than the tear that enjoyment can gild with... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1828 - 232 pages
...life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first...And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear. II. The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows ! If it were not with friendship and love intertwined... | |
| Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1828 - 428 pages
...life is a waste of wearisome hour*, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns." The fresh, unbroken voice of the songstress, her radiant brow, on which the shade of care had never... | |
| |