 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...wish them gone : What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil : Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We are worse in peace : — What,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...wish them gone : What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease: To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil: Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We are worse in peace; — What... | |
 | W. F. March Phillipps - Elegiac poetry - 1879 - 384 pages
...wish them gone ; What is it, then, to have, or have no, wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife. Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease ; To cross the seas to any foreign soil Peril and toil ; Wars with their noise affright us, when they cease We're worse in peace ; What then... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife ? Our own affection ny a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venic soU, Peril and toil : Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We are worse in peace ;... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1881 - 364 pages
...wish them gone : 'What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease ; To cross the seas to any foreign soil Peril and toil ; Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We 're worse in peace : What,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife? Our own affection Peril and toil : Wars with their noise affright us; when they cease, We are worse in peace ; — What... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Peril and toil ; Wars with their noise affright us ; when...peace. What then remains but that we still should cry For being born or, being born, to die ? ROBERT SOUTHWELL. 1562 ?— 1594. CHANCE AND COMPENSATION.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...Our own affections still at home to please Isa disease ; To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peri] and toil ; Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease We are worse in peace : — 30 What then remains, but that we still should cry For being born, or, being born, to die ? The... | |
 | English lyrics - English poetry - 1883 - 330 pages
...Or wish them gone. What is it then to have or have no wife But single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please, Is a disease : To cross the sea to any foreign soil, Perils and toil : Wars with their noise affright us : when they cease We are... | |
 | William Henry Smith (of Brompton.) - 1884 - 58 pages
...have themnone, What is it then to have — or have no wife But single thraldom — or a double strife, Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease. To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Labour and toil. Wars with their noise affright us — when they cease We're worse in peace. What then... | |
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Some would have children : those that have them, moan Or wish them gone : What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign... 
