 Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit...  Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading - Page 191867Full view - About this book
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. 318 Tllfc NIGHTINGALE. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pages
...remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch, fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds...own sorrow,) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain ; And many a poet echoes the conceit. " We may not thus profane Nature's... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1853 - 728 pages
...pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, . i Or slow distemper, or neglected love, ..- ч , (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself. And made all gentle sounds toll back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, ' : First named these notes a melancholy... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...ight-wanderin i? man, whose heart was pic. ced With the resemblance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemprr, or neglected love, 'And so, poor wretch ! filled all...own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...some night-wand'ring man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows,) he and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the... | |
 | 1883 - 846 pages
...remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love (And so, poor wretch 1 filled nil things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell...own sorrow), he, and such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain. A similar explanation is given by Shakspeare, in the night-scene in the... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...some night- wand'ring man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows,) he and' such as he First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of hia own sorrow) — he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1864 - 148 pages
...some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...own sorrow,) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...some night- wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme... | |
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