 Tis left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah! Where shall either victim rest? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower?  The Quarterly Review - Page 3361813Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...wounded wing or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing hut their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | 1849 - 556 pages
...wing or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ! Shall this with faded pinion soar Prom rose to tulip as before ? Or beauty blighted in an hour Find rest within her broken bower? No — gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing for those that... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1850 - 432 pages
...acknowledged purity rendered less necessary. Do you remember my lines in the Giaour, ending with — No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...o'er those that die ; And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own ; And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1851 - 254 pages
...acknowledged purity rendered less necessary. Do you remember my lines in the Giaour, ending with — No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing...o'er those that die ; And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing bat their own ; And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...wounded wing and bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own. BYRON. THE MAY-FLY. THE Sun of the eve was warm and bright When... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | Literature - 1853 - 564 pages
...very. Is this the way your sailors help one another in distress ?" "I am afraid so," said the Captain. Gayer insects fluttering; by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die ; And English tara llave pity shown For every failure but their own. ''• You do not mean to say that they... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or beauty, blighted...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every wo a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or Beauty, blighted...o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, .And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before ? Or beaut)-, d— Good Night ! " XIV. On, on shown To every failing but their own, And every wo a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.... | |
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