Or moss-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know Which plains more blest, or verdant vales, bestow : Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found ; And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the... The Calcutta Review - Page 2601849Full view - About this book
| William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales bestow: Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" . Curst... | |
| William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...day, In vain ye .hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales bestow: Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. . " Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, " When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way !" Curst... | |
| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...share ! In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales, bestow : Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands, are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way ! The Camel-driver.... | |
| Church history - 1836 - 378 pages
...the green delighu to know. Which plains more blessed or verdant vales bestow ; There rocks alone, or tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." Uounts. The springs are but few and scanty all over the desert, in that part especially where Ishmael... | |
| England - 1839 - 876 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant vales bestow : Here rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way ! " » ч... | |
| 1839 - 550 pages
...delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant hills bestow ; Here rocks alone and listless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." The flowers and beauty of evangelical piety are to be sought for in a different garden. Peace never... | |
| Robert Philip - Missionaries - 1840 - 556 pages
...of the turtle tastes of fish, another of flesh, and another of fowl. Here rocks alone, and trackless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Next day we were between the islands of St. Jago md Mayo. A tthe latter place we intended to have stopped... | |
| Robert Philip - Missionaries - 1840 - 472 pages
...of the turtle tastes of fish, another of flesh, and another of fowl. Here rocks alone, and trackless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Next day we were between the islands of St. Jago and Mayo. At the latter place we intended to have... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delight to know, Which plains more blessed or verdant vales bestow -, carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom ; little did I dream that I s ' Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way!' Cursed... | |
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