 | William Allen - Christian poetry, American - 1860 - 110 pages
...mornings shine, And reddening Phcebus lifts his golden flre : The birds in vain their amorous descants join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine." Here this false diction destroys the value of every line. The other remark of Mr. Wordsworth is this... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...***** SONNET ON THE DEATH OP MB RICHARD WEST.* In vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire; The birds in vain their...anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast th' imperfect joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasures bring... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1862 - 358 pages
...Poemata, p. 186.] IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phrebus lifts his golden fire 5 The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful...mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. V. 9. "Primosque et extremes metendo stravit humum, sine clade victor." Hor. Od. iv. 14, 31. V. 1.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1863 - 304 pages
...The birds in vain their amorous descant join j^— Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. If. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, •""" A different object do these eyes require : fy My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ;/%. And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. ^ Yet... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...He then quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phcebas lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous...fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas 1 for other notes repine ; A different objeet do thcse ege* require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...from almost all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself." He then quotes Gray's sonnet — " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds ia vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1866 - 360 pages
...WS Landori Poemata, p. 186.] IN rain to me the smiling mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifis his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous...mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. V. 9. " Primosque et extremos metendo stravit humum( sine clade victor." Hor. Od. iv. 14, 31. V. 1.... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...della tua luce, venir vedrai me, e rimenarten meco! AS SANNAZARO \ ON THE DEATH OF MR RICHARD WESTIN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, and reddening...these ears alas ! for other notes repine, a different objecl do these eyes require : my lonely anguish melts no heart but mine, and in my breast the imperfect... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...agitated for the loss of his friend, will best appear from the following beautiful little sonnet1 " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...resume their green attire ; These ears, alas! for other note« reniñe*. А (ИйетстЛ oVjecX iVo \Хжяй «^«»wsj».'»-, My lonely anguish melts... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...CXLIX ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phcebus lifts his golden fire, The birds in vain their amorous...attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, 5 A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine, And in my breast... | |
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In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these... 
