 Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah, why With cypress branches hast thou Wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh?  Tinsley's Magazine - Page 5861878Full view - About this book
 | George Barrington Hughes - 1850 - 366 pages
...Undulant upon my ears, Many a happy thought, now sleeping, Wake, to charm in future years ! LINES. " As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them in their breast— but place to die,— Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 pages
...world of ours, Which makes it fatal to be loved ? ah, why With cypress branches hast thou wreath'd thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, " I wish that I had been in better spirits ; but I am out of sorts, out of nerves, and now and then... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...Byron. Q LOVE ! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ? e, — Spenser. enimy to it, and to all the rest That in the Gardin of Adonis springs, Is wicked... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...world of ours, Which makes it fatal to be lov'd ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreath'd thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ?...flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to dieThus the frail beings we would fondly cherish, Are laid within our bosoms but to perish. III. In... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1858 - 532 pages
...Love ! what is it, in this world of ours, , That makes it fatal to be loved ? — ah, why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy...those who dote on odours, pluck the flowers And place upon their breasts, but place to die ; So the frail beings we would fondly cherish, Are laid within... | |
 | 1858 - 890 pages
...Love, what is it in this world of our's That makes it fatal to be loved ? O why With cypress-branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh?" Such is the " Hesperus" of Joseph Noel Paton, a picture tndv beautiful in the completeness with which... | |
 | Jeremiah Clemens - United States - 1860 - 296 pages
..."Oh, love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who doat on odors pluck the flowers, And place them in their breast — but place to die — Thus, the... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 560 pages
...English." "O Love, what Is it In thl« world of cure Widen make> It fatal to be loved ? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best Interpreter a sigh?" As Hermes once took to his feathers light, When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept, So on a Delphic... | |
 | Law - 1861 - 420 pages
...Oh Love ! what is it in this world of ours, Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ?" And Lizzy, gentle Lizzy,, was her heart light, was her countenance radiant with unclouded smiles,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...English." "O Love, what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh?1' As Hermes once took to liis feathers light. When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,... | |
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