 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...bosom by your own. What mourner ever .felt poetic fires! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? How silent did... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...are the general characteristics of modern artificial poetry : for as the tlegiast sweetly says— " Grief unaffected, suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart." E z I shall read one of the shortest of them, which he composed on seeing a Scotch vessel homeward... | |
 | David Humphreys - United States - 1804 - 440 pages
...Mr. Addison : " What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires ; Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart." When my own grief shall become a little moderated, I propose to indulge my melancholy meditations in... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I lorget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave! How silent did... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? 148 How silent... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...bosom, by your ow What mourner ever fell poetic fires ? Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires ; Grief unaffected suits but ill with art* Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...bosom, by your own ! What mourner ever felt poetic fires ? Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires ; Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...frequent than is generally sapI •• • • • I among the sons of imagination, who seldom remember that Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Mr. Fitxherbert, the father of the late lord St. Helens, found Cooper one morning apparently in such... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires: Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night, that gave % soul's best p art f or ever ? o the How silent did his old... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Gric'f unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did... | |
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And judge, oh judge, my bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart. 
