 OH, happy shades — to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree ! This glassy stream, that spreading pine, Those alders, quivering to the breeze, Might soothe a soul less hurt...  The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical ... - Page 1991853Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1910 - 298 pages
...rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he $22. THE SHRUBBERY O HAPPY shades ! to me unblest I Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene...than mine, And please, if anything could please. But fixed unalterable Care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness everywhere, And slights... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 524 pages
...rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. $22 THE SHRUBBERY O HAPPY shades ! to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene...than mine, And please, if anything could please. But fixed unalterable Care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadnesc everywhere, And slights... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 540 pages
...a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. THE SHBUBBERY O HAPPY shades ! to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene...the breeze, Might soothe a soul less hurt than mine, Atid please, if anything could please. But fixed unalterable Care Foregoes not what she feels within,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1912 - 502 pages
...to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene that offers rest, And heart that cannot rest, agree ! 10 This glassy stream, that spreading pine, Those alders...anything could please. But fix'd unalterable Care 15 Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness everywhere, And slights the season and... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 660 pages
...often, with hues of saddest melancholy, as in the poem beginning — " O ! happy shades, to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene...offers rest, And heart, that cannot rest, agree." The incidents of his life are familiar, and his fame, as a painter of nature, and as a poet inspiring... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than we. 20 THE SHRUBBERY O HAPPY shades! to me unblest! Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene...rest, agree! This glassy stream, that spreading pine, 5 Those alders quivering to the breeze, Might soothe a soul less hurt than mine, And please, if anything... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 606 pages
...the happy, palls with me! suggest strongly the sentiment of a later and finer poem, The Shrubbery: This glassy stream, that spreading pine, Those alders...than mine, And please, if anything could please. But fixed unalterable care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness everywhere, And slights... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1914 - 552 pages
...Effect of his Melancholy 79 suggest strongly the sentiment of a later and finer poem, The Shrubbery: This glassy stream, that spreading: pine, Those alders...than mine, And please, if anything could please. But fixed unalterable care Forgoes not -what she feels within, Shows the same sadness everywhere, And slights... | |
 | Walter Barnes - English poetry - 1915 - 602 pages
...ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray 200* THE SHRUBBERY 0 happy shades ! to me unblest ! Friendly to peace, but not to me ! How ill the scene...alders quivering to the breeze, Might soothe a soul loss hurt than mine, And please, if anything could please. Shows the same sadness everywhere, And slights... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...as that watery glass \nd Heaven reflected in her face. THE SHRUBBERY O happy shades! to me unblest! Friendly to peace, but not to me! How ill the scene...than mine, And please, if anything' could please. But fixed unalterable Care Foregoes not what she feels within, Shows the same sadness everywhere, And slights... | |
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