 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...; 25 Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, 30 And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 466 pages
...; 23 Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, 3° And weep away the life of care Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 266 pages
...saddening as that of evening in more common lives. The profound melancholy of those lines of Shelley, — " I could lie down like a tired child And weep away the life of care Which I have born and yet must bear, came from a heart, as he says, " too soon grown old," — at twenty-six years,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. ur so an» ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. bold Sir Bedivere : " It is not meet, Sir King, to...thus, Aidless, alone, and smitten through the helm 1 have borne, and yet must bear, 228 TilJ death like sleep might steal on me, And 1 might frei in the... | |
 | Miriam Coles Harris - 1872 - 516 pages
...on my lips. CHAPTER XXIX. u Alas ! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around— I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must beai Till death, like sleep, might steal on me." SHELLHT. "How late, you have slept, Miss !" said Kitty,... | |
 | John Conroy Hutcheson - 1873 - 334 pages
...with greater intensity as the months rolled by. I got so miserable, that, I felt with Shelley — " I could lie down, like a tired child, And weep away...life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear !" For what profit did this warring against destiny bring me ? Nothing — nothing, but the " vanity... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...surround ; Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup ; 1 cannot drink too much He down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which 1 have borne, and yet must bear, •228... | |
 | 1909 - 738 pages
...all this unintelligible world. Byron was a misanthrope for ever railing against his kind. Shelley in the lines : — Yet, now despair itself is mild Even...life of care, Which I have borne, and yet must bear — typifies the same. I need not quote Carlyle, or Tennyson,— the two saddest souls of modern times... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge paintings - 1874 - 584 pages
...surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure. Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds...down like a tired child, And weep away the life of caro Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel... | |
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Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear... 
