| Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...dressed by none but thee ; Then, and only then, she wears Her richest pearls ; — I mean thy tears. Not in the evening's eyes When they red with weeping are. For the sun that dies, Sits sorrow with a face so fair : No where but here doth meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...dressed by none but thee ; Then, and only then, she wears Her richest pearls ; — I mean thy tears. Not in the evening's eyes When they red with weeping are, For the sun that dies, Sits sorrow with a face so fair : No where but here doth meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.... | |
| English poetry - 1866 - 396 pages
...dressed by none but thee ; Then, and only then, she wears Her richest pearls;—I mean thy tears. _•-' Not in the evening's eyes, When they red with weeping are For the sun that dies, Sits Sorrow with a face so fair: Nowhere but here doth meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.... | |
| Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...Weeper." There, speaking of the tearful Magdalene— the Magdalene of the Gospels— he says: — " Not in the evening's eyes, When they red with weeping are For the sun that dies, Sits Sorrow with a face so fair. Nowhere but here did ever meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so... | |
| 1869 - 184 pages
...and only then, she wears Her richest pearls ; — I mean, thy tears. The Dew no more shall Weep. 99 Not in the evening's eyes, When they red with weeping are For the sun that dies, Sits Sorrow with a face so fair : Nowhere but here doth meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.... | |
| Richard Crashaw - English poetry - 1872 - 576 pages
...only then, she weares I ler proudest pearles: I mean, thy teares. x. Not in the Euening's eyes, 55 When they red with weeping are For the Sun that dyes ; Sitts Sorrow with a face so fair. Nowhere but here did ever meet Sweetnesse so sad, sadnesse so sweet. 60 XL Sadnesse all the while .Shce... | |
| 1923 - 826 pages
...thee. Then, and onely then, she weares Her richest 1 Pearles, I meane thy Teares. ' Not in the Evenings Eyes When they red with weeping are For the Sun that dyes, Sits sorrow with a face so faire, No where but heere did ever meet Sweetnesse so sad, sadnes so sweet.'... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 pages
...of Herbert or Hervie or Crashaw ; and its panegyric might be written in the words of the last — " Not in the evening's eyes When they red with weeping are For the Sun that dies, Sits sorrow with a face as fair ; Nowhere but here did ever meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so... | |
| Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 pages
...she dress'd by none but thee ; Then, and only then, she wears Her richest pearls;— I mean thy tears Not in the evening's eyes When they red with weeping are For the sun that dies, Sits Sorrow with a face so fair : No where but here doth meet, Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.... | |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...dress'd by none but thee ; Then, and only then, she wears Her richest pearls; — I mean thy tears Not in the evening's eyes When they red with weeping are For the sun that dies, Sits Sorrow with a face so fair: No where but here doth meet, Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.... | |
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