 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Anthologies - 1867 - 376 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 pages
...are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a atone at my head, Ere another- such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873 - 122 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...fugitive years are all hastening away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. "Tis a sight to engage me if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Though his life... | |
 | Léon Boucher - 1874 - 454 pages
...lowly as they, With a turf on my breast. and a stone at my bead, Ere another such grove shall rise in its stead. The change both my heart and my fancy employs, I reflect on the frailty ot man and his Joys, Short-lived as we are, yet our pleasures, we see, : Have a still shorter date,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...My fugitive years ate all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Short-lived... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Short-lived... | |
 | William Cowper - 1879 - 688 pages
...her, a friend to peace. 1 Cowper afterwards altered this last stanza in the following manner : — The change both my heart and my fancy employs, I reflect on the frailty of man anH his joys ; Short-lived as we are, yet our pleasures, we sec, Have a still shorter date, and die... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Short-lived... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must erelong lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. 'T is a sight to engage me, if anything can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man ; Bhort-lived... | |
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And the scene, where his melody charm'd me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove... 
