 Comfort? comfort scorned of devils; this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on...  Poems - Pagina 100door Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dend unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1879 - 1154 pagina’s
...circumstances depicted in that miserybreathing line from the Poet Laureate's pen, of which the scene is laid " in the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." It would be easy to mention many instances in which the horses exhibited at Kilburn showed their susceptibility... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 pagina’s
...by the memory of their former happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : — " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillow, to the tears that thou shall weep. • VOL. II. C Thou shalt hear the "Never!... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 pagina’s
...that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : — " Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, leat thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night,...before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillow, to the tears that thou shall weep. VOL. II. C Thou shall hear the " Never!... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 330 pagina’s
...happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : — " Drug thy memories, lest tbou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 pagina’s
...their former happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow: — '' Drug thy memoriaa, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain u on the roof. Like a dog he hunta in dreams^ and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pagina’s
...lest thy heart be pot to proof, In the dead unhappy mght, and when tho rain ia on the ruoof. Like • dog he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying uight-lump flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a do;, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the ram is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee,... | |
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