The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild ; Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers. Among Strangers: an Autobiography - Page 167by E. S. Maine - 1870 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...upon its own sweet self, Till it becomes all music murmurs of. In another fragment he ealls it — Tho silver key of the fountain of tears. Where the spirit...Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Cure, like a drowsy child. Is laid asleep in flowers. And then again this melancholy traee of the sad... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poets, English - 1840 - 396 pages
...upon its own sweet self, Till it becomes all music murmurs of. In another fragment he calls it — The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...brain is wild ; Softest grave of a thousand fears, And then again this melancholy trace of the sad thronging thoughts, which were the well whence he drew... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 862 pages
...singularly susceptible, is equally fanciful and characteristic : ' The silver key of the fountain of teara. Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild, Softest grave of a thousand feara, Where their mother Care, like a weary child, Is laid asleep in flowers.' Milton's deep sense... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 450 pages
...upon its own sweet self, Till it becomes all music murmurs of. In another fragment he calls it — The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers. And then again this melancholy trace of the sad thronging thoughts, which were the well whence he drew... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 pages
...the regions dim Of rapture, as a boat with swift sails winging His way adown some many winding river. The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers." SHELLEY. ALINE, on her sixteenth birthday, was in London, undergoing the usual strict finishing discipline... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1848 - 340 pages
...the regions dim Of rapture, as a boat with swift sails winging His way adown some many winding river. The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers." SHELLEY. ALINE, on her sixteenth birthday, was in London, undergoing the usual strict finishing discipline... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Self-Help - 1850 - 300 pages
...to whose every inspiration he was singularly susceptible, is equally fanciful and characteristic : " The silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the...a thousand fears, Where their mother Care, like a weary child, Is laid asleep in flowers." Milton's deep sense of the beautiful in sound, is expressed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...WANTED. — The silver key of the fountain of tears Where tbe apirit drinks till the brain il wild, The softest grave of a thousand fears Where their mother Care, like a weary child, IB laid asleep with flowera, WT Better not to be than not lo be noble. 8. JAKES A. SALIER.... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1852 - 926 pages
...with such pure, unmingled pleasure as had this sweet music on the present occasion inspired her. " Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother...care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers." Once, at the close of a peculiarly beautiful ballad, she lifted up her eyes, those " downfalling eyes,... | |
 | Mary Anna Needell - 1853 - 950 pages
...for a reply, he repeated the words with his usual exquisite feeling, and delicate perfection. — " Silver key of the fountain of tears, Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild ; Softest bed of a thousand fears, Where their mother Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers."... | |
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