 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
 | W. J. Lake - Earth sciences - 1858 - 182 pages
...regions — " Where no springs in murmurs break away, Or moss-crown'd fountains mitigate the day ; Where rocks alone and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." b. The milk forms a nourishing and refreshing drink ; made also into butter and cheese. c. Flesh supplies... | |
 | William Collins - 1859 - 236 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." Yet in these beautiful lines there is a slight error, which writers of the greatest genius very frequently... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 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 ! " Cursed... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know Which plains more blessed 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 be... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 210 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delight to know Which plains more blessed 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 ! ' Cursed... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delight 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 ! ' Curs'd... | |
 | Sir John Macdonell - Economics - 1871 - 488 pages
...one man, and that, in the howling wilderness, where, as Collins, describing such a scene, says — "rocks alone, and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around" — there are no wells or hope of them. In the agony of the future march the owner of the water-skins... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1872 - 396 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 ! Cursed be... | |
 | How - 1873 - 222 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 Schirat' walls I bent my way ! " Cursed... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest or verdant vales bastow ; 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 ! Cursed be... | |
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