 No ; — life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers. Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.  The Quarterly Review - Page 378edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Ellen Wood - 1865 - 348 pages
...past conduct became clear to him. So ! the boy's heart had been thus early awakened — and crushed. " The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns," whistled Mr. St. John to himself. Ay, crushing is as sure to follow that early... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...of night, And maids who love the moon. Fly not Yet, Go where glory waits thee. Go where Glorg. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. 0 think not mg Spirits. No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...National Airs. Oh ! life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. Moore, ' O think not my Spirit.' What's life P at best a wandering breath ; When saddest, but a passing... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...sons of night, And maids who love the moon. Fly mi Yet. Go where glory waits thee. Co where Glory. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. O think not my Spirits. No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth... | |
 | D W W.A.R. E - Double-crostics - 1869 - 120 pages
...needs but to be seen." " Is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns, And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns." 1 "She peered from 'neath the gauze." 2 " Richard loves Richard, then 'tis... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ireland - 1869 - 222 pages
...my brow. No :—life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile :— May we never meet worse, in... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...eternities. MOORE Life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns, And the heart, that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to he touch'd by the thorns. MOORE. They may rail at this life — from the hour I began it, I 've found... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 288 pages
...superstition. Oh, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns, And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. Sensibility would be a good portress, if she had but one hand. With her right... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Songs - 1872 - 514 pages
...hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowera, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. But...our pilgrimage here, Than the tear that enjoyment may gild with a smile, And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear. ' The thread of our life would... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1872 - 660 pages
...brow. No ; — life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adonis ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch' d by the thorns. But send round the bowl, and be happy awhile : — • May we never meet worse,... | |
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