 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...bend SONNET ON THE DEATH OP MR 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... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 pages
...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. ' In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : Tho birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do t lu se eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no /if art but mine ; A nd in my breast the imperfect... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...SONNET ON THE DEATH OP MB RICHARD WEST.* In vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phrebus lifts his golden fire; The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume then- green attire. • These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different object do these eyes... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1872 - 396 pages
...MEMORY OF A DEPARTED FRIEND. H X 3i th «! U E a X IgETRJN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, IH.Bl And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join,* O O IJ E 2; E Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction : — ''In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his goMen fire ; The birds, in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 pages
...composition, and was more than any other man curiously elaborate in the structure of his own poetic diction. In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening...expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-bom pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ; To warm their... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 604 pages
...Wordsworth proceeds, however, to illustrate his principles by the following sonnet of Gray : — ' In vain to me the smiling mornings shine* And reddening...fire ; The birds in vain their amorous descant join, The cheerful fields resume their green attire ; These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...prose even more widely, than the lines which either precede or follow, in the position of the words. A different object do these eyes require; My lonely...mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. But were it otherwise, what would this prove, but a truth, of which no man ever doubted? Videlicet,... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...own best practice belies these "reasonings": In vain to me the smiling Mornings shine, And redd'ning Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or chearful fields resume their green attire: These ears, alas! for other notes repine, A different object... | |
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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... 
